Anagrams of: CLAUCHTING

• (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team

• the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

• becoming infected

• (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

• To place in a cache.

• spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key

• catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove

• fasten with a latch

• the act of grasping

• a tense critical situation

• a number of birds hatched at the same time

• a collection of things or persons to be handled together

• a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand

• a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism

• a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism

• take hold of; grab

• hold firmly, usually with one's hands

• affect

• (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily

• a small slip noose made with seizing

• the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet

• a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

• a tight or amorous embrace

• secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts

• hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches

• hold in a tight grasp

• embrace amorously

• flatten the ends (of nails and rivets)

• settle conclusively

• Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

• Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached.

• Rubbish; debris; refuse.

• Of or pertaining to the jaw.