intransitive verb. To grasp and hold tightly.

intransitive verb. To seize; snatch.

intransitive verb. To attempt to grasp or seize.

intransitive verb. To engage or disengage a motor vehicle's clutch.

noun. A hand, claw, talon, or paw in the act of grasping.

noun. A tight grasp.

noun. Control or power.

noun. A device for gripping and holding.

noun. undefined

noun. Any of various devices for engaging and disengaging two working parts of a shaft or of a shaft and a driving mechanism.

noun. The apparatus, such as a lever or pedal, that activates one of these devices.

noun. A tense, critical situation.

noun. A clutch bag.

adjective. Being or occurring in a tense or critical situation.

adjective. Tending to be successful in tense or critical situations.

idiom. (clutch) To search in desperation for a solution to a difficulty.

noun. The complete set of eggs produced or incubated at one time.

noun. A brood of chickens.

noun. A group; a bunch.

transitive verb. To hatch (chicks).

To grasp tightly or firmly; seize, clasp, or grip strongly: as, to clutch a dagger.

To close tightly; clench.

To fasten.

To get; gain.

Specifically To seize (a clutch of eggs); take from the clutch.

To snatch, or endeavor to snatch; try to grasp or seize: with at.

A dialectal variant of cluck.

noun. undefined

noun. Nautical: A forked stanchion.

noun. The throat of a patent anchor.

noun. Oyster spawn.

noun. A grasp or hold; specifically, a strong grip upon anything.

noun. In machinery: A movable coupling or locking and unlocking contrivance, used for transmitting motion, or for disconnecting moving parts of machinery. See bayonet-clutch, friction-clutch, etc.

noun. The cross-head of a piston-rod.

noun. The paw, talon, or claw of a rapacious animal.

noun. Figuratively, the hand, as representing power; hence, power of disposal or control; mastery: chiefly in the plural: as, to fall into the clutches of an enemy.

noun. A hatch of eggs; the number of eggs incubated at any one time; in the case of the domestic hen, specifically, thirteen eggs.

transitive verb. To seize, clasp, or grip with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively.

transitive verb. To close tightly; to clinch.

noun. A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

noun. The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty.

noun. A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

noun. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

noun. The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

noun. a clutch in which connection is made by means of bayonets attached to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft.

intransitive verb. To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.

intransitive verb. to become too tense or frightened to perform properly; used sometimes with up.

noun. The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.

noun. A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.

noun. An important or critical situation.

"I shouldn't be surprised, I guess, since the car has 158,000 miles on it, and the clutch is the original one."