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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clutch \Clutch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clutched}; p. pr & vb n.
{Clutching}.] [OE. clucchen See {Clutch}, n.]
1. To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws;
-- often figuratively; as to clutch power.
A man may set the poles together in his head, and
clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
--Collier.
Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . ? Come
let me clutch thee. --Shak.
2. To close tightly; to clinch.
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand. --Shak.
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