He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.

The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cin…

We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.

In our tiny 30-foot schooner, the 40-foot (think four stories high) waves looked more like giant mountains hurtling at us. I cinched the straps on my lifejacket a bit tighter and h…

[Ostriches] also lack the tiny hooks, or barbicels, that cinch feathers together in most other birds.