cinching
/ˈsɪnt͡ʃɪŋ/
cinching is the present participle and gerund of cinch.
Meaning of cinch
Verb (1)
cinch (third-person singular simple present cinches, present participle cinching, simple past and past participle cinched)
- To bring to certain conclusion.
- To tighten down.
- He let Sandy stand for a minute and then took the saddle off. Several more of these saddlings and unsaddlings followed. Then finally the saddle was cinched. Again Sandy repeated his pattern of calming down after the first unfamiliarity of a new experience had worn off. […] Before long Sandy...1954, Troy Nesbit [pseudonym; Franklin Folsom], “Sacking Out”, in Sand Dune Pony (Wilderness Mysteries; 1), Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 145
Verb (2)
cinch (third-person singular simple present cinches, present participle cinching, simple past and past participle cinched)
- In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
Noun
cinching (plural cinchings)
- A fastening.
- It says something about the girl's ability or luck in shaping and securing the tent that not once did it begin to fold or come loose from its cinchings to the raft.2010, Dan Simmons, Endymion
- Panic-stricken, he knew not what to do as he watched his restive horse back away from him, turn, and bolt from his increasingly menacing scent, his belongings torn from their saddle cinchings as the animal sped through the brush.2014, T. C. Rypel, Gonji: A Hungering of Wolves, page 209
Forms of cinching
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Words that rhyme with cinching
Questions about cinching
- What does cinching mean?
- Cinching means a fastening.
- What is cinching the present participle and gerund of?
- Cinching is the present participle and gerund of cinch.
- What part of speech is cinching?
- Cinching is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cinching?
- Cinching is pronounced /ˈsɪnt͡ʃɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of cinching?
- The plural of cinching is cinchings.
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