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Definition of Clenches
1. clench [v] - See also: clench
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clenches
Literary usage of Clenches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse: With a Treatise on Draught by William Youatt (1843)
"... instead of being borne fairly on the crust, is supported by the nails and
clenches, which must be injurious to the foot, and often chip and break it. ..."
2. The Theory of Strains in Girders and Similar Structures: With Observations by Bindon Blood Stoney (1873)
"Adhesion of iron and copper bolts to wood—Strength of clenches and forelocks.—The
shearing strength of oak treenails has been already given in 397. ..."
3. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1869)
"... the very trivial facts—so now accounted—turn out the explanations of a puzzle
or the clenches of a proof. HC R, born at Bury, May 13, ..."
4. Ship-building in Iron and Wood by Andrew Murray, Robert Murray, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1863)
"Practical " Table of the Strength of clenches and of Forelocks, as Building. ...
In the experiments on the clenches, the clenches always gave way ; but with ..."
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