The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cinch \Cinch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Cinch"ing.]
To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly. [Western U. S.]
To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission. [Slang, U. S.]
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cinch English)
Usage examples of "cinching".
Its clothing was singular, to say the leasthigh-topped brogans of black leather, baggy pantaloons and baggier shirt of what looked to be a good-quality cloth in the hue of a dark-green olive, what might have been a broad sword belt cinching the waist, but no visible weapons and no armor except the close-fitting helmet.
If there were an accident, that large leather sleeve would be cinching Kikit to his seat back in no time flat.
Pulling a foot up on the stool and cinching my knee close, I asked, "Just out of curiosity, how long do you allege this affair has been going on?
The plan was her own idea, and it had taken more than an hour for the sergeant to get enough strong, long belts, without cracks or worn spots, from the dead sec men in the garage and slide the leather under her, cinching the straps until compressing the seat cushion—hopefully hard enough to simulate her weight.
Throwing on the saddle blanket and leather saddle, then cinching the girth tight, he dropped the stirrups and climbed on the horse.
Though'' She threw back one wing of her cape and examined the sash cinching her tunic.
The chancellor was still cinching his cloth-of-gold sash over the beige court robe he'd thrown on when the message arrived.
Both smiled wryly at the sight of themselves, bunching the worsted material and cinching it tight to their waists with woolen ties, but the dresses were warm and Yr and Faraday decided to stay and wash their hair, taking it in turns to scrub and massage the scalp of the other.
Yr scrambled to her feet and slipped her rough worsted dress over her head, cinching it tight about her waist at the same time as she wriggled her feet into her boots.
Seated as he was on that night, poring over some sheets of vellum by the dimming-flaring light of a lamp, he looked the epitome of a noble-born great captain, a wealthy war-leader of armies of this world's late seventeenth centuryclothed well and expensively, a belt of silver plates set with semiprecious stones cinching his waist and a bejeweled dagger depending from it.
After adjusting her buoyancy compensator and cinching her weight belt, she and Rodgers made a final check of each other's equipment.
After cinching his bags on a chrome rack mounted on the rear deck of the Allard, he opened the tiny passenger door, slid his long legs under the low dashboard and stretched them out to the firewall.