sinch

English

Noun

sinch (plural sinches)

1. Alternative form of cinch (simple saddle girth used in Mexico)

Verb

sinch (third-person singular simple present sinches, present participle sinching, simple past and past participle sinched)

1. (transitive, US, Western US) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle).

   to sinch up a saddle

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sinch” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Insch, chins

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Piedmontese

Piedmontese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sinch

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cīnque, from Latin quīnque, from Proto-Italic *kʷenkʷe. Cognates include Italian cinque and French cinq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siŋk/

Numeral

sinch

1. five