clinch

To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.

To clasp; to interlock.

“Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah—‘And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.’”

To fasten securely or permanently.

To make certain; to finalize.

I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.

Vincent Kompany was sent off after conceding a penalty that was converted by Stephen Hunt to give Wolves hope. But Adam Johnson's curling shot in stoppage time clinched the points.

To hold firmly; to clench

Any of several fastenings.

The act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed.

The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.

to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon

to secure anything by a clinch

A pun.

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 surname.

A river in Virginia and Tennessee, United States, a tributary of the Tennessee River, named after an 18th century explorer.