Clunch vs Clinch - What's the difference?
clunch | clinch |
(UK) A traditional building material mostly made of chalk or clay.
*1736 , Charles Parkin, History of Norfolk ,
*:The manor-house stands near the church, and is a large convenient old house built of clunch , stone, &c. with good gardens and walks adjoining to the river side.
To clasp; to interlock.
To make certain; to finalize.
*{{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 29
, author=Neil Johnston
, title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn
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To fasten securely or permanently.
To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
To embrace passionately.
To hold firmly; to clench.
* Dryden
To set closely together; to close tightly.
Any of several fastenings.
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
(obsolete) A pun.
(nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
A passionate embrace.
As nouns the difference between clunch and clinch
is that clunch is (uk) a traditional building material mostly made of chalk or clay while clinch is any of several fastenings.As a verb clinch is
to clasp; to interlock.clunch
English
Noun
clinch
English
Verb
(es)- I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
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- Clinch the pointed spear.
- to clinch the teeth or the fist
- (Jonathan Swift)
Noun
(es)- to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
- to secure anything by a clinch
- (Alexander Pope)