clutch¹ /kluch/

1. To close the hand upon
2. To hold firmly
3. To seize or grasp

To make a snatching movement (with at)

1. A grasping hand (often in pl)
2. A claw (archaic)
3. A device by which two shafts or rotating members may be connected or disconnected either while at rest or in relative motion
4. The pedal of a motor vehicle which controls such a device
5. Grasp
6. A snatching movement
7. (in pl) power, control

Relating to a critical situation

clutch bag noun

A kind of handbag without strap or handle, carried in the hand or under the arm

in the clutch (N American)

In a critical situation

clutch² /kluch/

1. A brood of chickens
2. A sitting of eggs
3. (loosely) a number, group

To hatch

• tho’
• thrae
• thraldom
• thraldoms
• thrall
• thralldom
• thralldoms
• thralled
• thralling
• thralls
• thrang
• thrapple
• thrappled
• thrapples
• thrappling
• thrash
• thrashed
• thrasher
• thrashers
• thrashes
• thrashing
• thrashing-floor
• thrashing-machine
• thrashing-mill
• thrashings