资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.