Cinch

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A girth for a pack or saddle.
  • noun. An encircling cord, band, or belt.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something easy to accomplish. synonym: breeze.
  • noun. A sure thing; a certainty.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To put a saddle girth on (a horse).
  • intransitive verb. To secure (a saddle) by means of a cinch.
  • intransitive verb. To encircle or wrap tightly.
  • intransitive verb. To tighten (an encircling cord or belt, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To make certain; secure or guarantee.
  • intransitive verb. To tighten an encircling band or saddle girth. Often used with up.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To gird with a cinch.
  • Hence To bind or subdue by force.
  • To tighten the cinch: used with up.
  • noun. A saddle-girth made of leather, canvas, or woven horsehair.
  • noun. A firm hold or grip on anything.
  • noun. A fine position or situation; an easy job; a ‘snap.’
  • noun. A variety of all-fours, sometimes called double pedro and high-five.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
  • noun. A tight grip.
  • transitive verb. To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly.
  • transitive verb. To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission.
  • intransitive verb. To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; -- often with up.
  • transitive verb. In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
  • noun. Something that is very easy to do.
  • noun. A firm hold.
  • verb. To bring to certain conclusion.
  • verb. To tighten down.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place
  • verb. tie a cinch around
  • verb. make sure of
  • noun. any undertaking that is easy to do
  • verb. get a grip on; get mastery of
  • noun. a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps