Cinch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A girth for a pack or saddle.
  • n. A firm grip.
  • n. Something easy to accomplish. See Synonyms at breeze1.
  • n. A sure thing; a certainty.
  • v. To put a saddle girth on.
  • v. To get a tight grip on.
  • v. Informal To make certain; secure or guarantee: cinch a victory.
  • verb-intransitive. To tighten a saddle girth. Often used with up.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
  • n. Something that is very easy to do.
  • n. A firm hold.
  • v. To bring to certain conclusion.
  • v. To tighten down.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
  • n. A tight grip.
  • v. To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly.
  • v. To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission.
  • verb-intransitive. To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; -- often with up.
  • n. A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called right pedro) and the five of the same color (called left pedro, and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) each count five on the score. Fifty-one points make a game. Called also double pedro and high five.
  • v. In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A saddle-girth made of leather, canvas, or woven horsehair.
  • To gird with a cinch.
  • Hence To bind or subdue by force.
  • To tighten the cinch: used with up.
  • n. A firm hold or grip on anything.
  • n. A fine position or situation; an easy job; a ‘snap.’
  • n. A variety of all-fours, sometimes called double pedro and high-five.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place
  • v. tie a cinch around
  • v. make sure of
  • n. any undertaking that is easy to do
  • v. get a grip on; get mastery of
  • n. a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps
  • Verb Form
    cinched    cinches    cinching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stable gear    saddlery    tack    fix    secure    fasten    control    insure    check    see   
    Variant
    Form
    cinched    cinching    cincher   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    girth    hold    easy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Lynch    Minch    clinch    finch    flinch    grinch    hinch    inch    kinch    linch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cinches    three-ring    pillion    looseleaf    cincture    cantle    girth    surcingle    red-bordered    'ayuh