Definition of Clencher

1. one that clenches [n -S] - See also: clenches

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clencher

clemency
clement
clementine
clementine tree
clementines
clemently
clemizole
clemmed
clemming
clems
clenbuterol
clench
clenched
clenched fist
clenched fist sign
clencher (current term)
clenchers
clenches
clenching
clencht
clenoliximab
cleoid
cleome
cleomes
clepe
cleped
clepes
clepest
clepeth
cleping

Literary usage of Clencher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"Death comes but once, the Philosophers say And 'tis, true my brave boys, but that once is a clencher It takes us from drinking and loving away And spoils at ..."

2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"A clencher ; an unanswerable reply. The term occurs in Taylor's Werkes, 1630, in Wit and Mi'rth, p. 194. ..."

3. An Attempt to Promote the Commercial Interests of Great Britain by William Langworthy (1793)
"They are al.tb molt important for' clencher ... is thort and fimple: Great as the advantage apparently is, and muft be, in favour of the clencher-built ..."

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