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.
Henry Clay. The American political leader and secretary of state Henry Clay (1777-1852) came to national prominence as leader of the War Hawks, who drove the country into the War of 1812. For the next 40 years he worked for international peace and sought to reconcile warring factions in the nation.