clench

To grip or hold fast.

I clenched the rope in my teeth.

Clinch the pointed spear.

To close tightly.

He clenched his fist in anger.

[She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]

Alternative form of clinch (“bend and hammer a nail”).

Dated form of clinch (“make certain, finalize”).

to clench an argument

A tight grip.

Alternative form of clinch (“the act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed”).

A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.

A local chapter of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion.

And perhaps most innovative of all, Drummond and Stang pushed for a policy of clench autonomy […]

Every SubGenius clench is required to have a member who does not believe […]

A pun.

Here one poor word an hundred clenches makes