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Brood of chicks
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clutch
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Clutch is an album by Peter Hammill , released on his Fie! label in 2002. Clutch contains nine tracks played exclusively on acoustic guitar with accompaniments on saxophones and other instruments. The album was produced and played by Hammill himself, with ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
movable mechanical part for transmitting motion, 1814, from clutch (v.), with the "seizing" sense extended to "device for bringing working parts together." Originally of mill-works, first used of motor vehicles 1899. Meaning "moment when heroics are required" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 (context US English) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations. alt. 1 To seize, as though with claws. (from 14th c.) 2 To grip or grasp tightly. (from 17th c.) n. 1 The claw of a predatory animal or bird. ...
Usage examples of clutch.
Hands were clutching at the garments of the dazed Mattenbaal when the armored Anakim closed in around him, beat the mob back with bowstaves and spear shafts, and hustled the priest away.
Clutching at him, coral-tipped mounds and creamy thighs aquiver as he thrust deep a final time, spilling himself into her.
Tallam noted a sheet of paper that the Ashanti clutched in the hand that held the spear.
A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up.
He imitated a carp also, and I twisted over him and back into the airlock, clutching for the safety bar.
As he slid back out, withdrawing until all but the tip of his cock had left her body, she clutched at him, trying to pull him closer.
Dogras, Rajputs, Jats, Baluchis, Garhwalis clutched at the little pulleys over their cots, pulled themselves up with painful efforts, and saluted.
Sherlock Holmes and the Famous Five and King Lear and Mickey Mouse and Joseph K and the Venus de Milo and Dick Dastardly and Mutley and Holly Golightly, I was also aware of the John Barleycorn figure turning around to ease my Shadow-flesh through the clutches of a network of story-blades.
Totha screamed in triumph and was on the point of leaping into his chariot to finish him when she choked, stood stiffly upright, her eyes glaring, and then clutched at the basketwork of the chariot.
Melody slumped onto the bed and rolled over on her back, clutching a pillow of Battenberg lace against her chest.
Matilda sat up, drawing the fur bedcover over her breasts and clutching it tightly.
And here come the judges befurred and splendid like the Lord Mayor, as usual clutching great dossiers looking too heavy for them to carry.
They hunted the solitary bigtooth cat the way that packs of little bigtooths hunted, with some lying in wait while others chased the deer or bison into their clutches.
Only his eyes, huge and golden, and his three-digit hands, which clutched a sharp billhook with a long haft, revealed that he was of the Folk.
The Blackshirt, almost on me now, clutched an M 1 carbine across his chest.