Definition of "cinching" []

• Present participle of cinch. (verb)

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• "I climbed up behind him, shaking slightly, both at the idea of what was to come, and the idea of cinching my arms tight around him."
• "I went quietly back to the river-bed, and found that most of the fellows had dismounted and were "cinching" up their saddles."
• "It took a week of persistent "cinching" to get Devers and his troop to understand that they were no longer an independent body, but must serve under the orders of a colonel or major."