Middle English Dictionary Entry
clencher n.
Entry Info
| Forms | clencher n. Also clincher, clinker. |
| Etymology | From clenchen . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A clinching iron; (b) a workman who puts in rivets or clinching nails.
Associated quotations
a
- (1423) Will York in Sur.Soc.4581 : ij malleis..cum j clencher de ferro.
b
- (1296) Newcastle Galley in Archaeol.Ael.4.2162 : In stipendiis duorum hominum repercuscium [read: repercussencium] claues, videlicet Clynckers.
- (1330) Court R.Colchester 197 : Philip le Clincher.
- (1336-7) *Acc.Exch.K.R.19/31.m.6 [OD col.] : ij clynkeres.