OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13180

cinch

/sɪntʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ceñir
To tighten down.
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.