Sc. Also clench. To limp, halt.
c. 1430. Henryson, Mor. Fab., 34. Clinching hee came that hee might not bee kend.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, V. v. 65. The todir part, lamyt, clynschis.
1628. Z. Boyd, Serm., in Zion’s Flowers (1855), App. 32/2. The creples … would clinch out upon their stilts.
1767. Meston, Poems, 126 (Jam.). Brookie … Clench’d out of doors.
