Definition of turnbuckle. : a device that usually consists of a link with screw threads at both ends, that is turned to bring the ends closer together, and that is used for tightening a rod or stay.
Such splintering had not yet led to formal party organization, but later the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and later the Whig Party.
The Whig Party lasted only a short while following Clay s death, but their ideas, particularly the American System, were taken over by the new Republican Party. Henry Clay did not have much time to live after the Compromise of 1850. He spent the summer of 1851 as his estate Ashland.