clenched

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But only if they are carefully designed according to the size and shape of your mouth, and of materials specific to whether you are a grinder, clencher or chomper.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021

I’ve got a clencher grip on the door handle.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

This weather, chilly and penetrating to the bones and marrow, is a clencher.

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

This was a clencher, and the nail of conviction was driven home to the hearts of the judges.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles

But we beg leave to set the question at rest for ever by one single clencher.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde