cincha

The art of packing, a special skill developed largely by the Mexicans, was euphonious with Spanish terms like cargadore, aparejo, suadera, and cincha.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Cinch was borrowed from the Spanish cincha in the early Texas days, though its figurative use did not come in until much later.

Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences Henry Louis 1921

Scouts may practice it with a cushion laid upon a porch rail, a cord for a lash rope, a strip of cloth for the band or cincha, and a bent nail for the cincha hook.

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

Before Number 3 is formed, the cinch or cincha (the belly-band) must be drawn very tight, so that the double-twist which makes the loop in

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

The diamond hitch _can_ be tied by using a loop instead of the cincha hook.

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

But the rope and cincha are apt to slip and loosen, unless the Scout takes a jam-hitch or Blackwall hitch around the hook of the cincha.

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

They had lost also their lash ropes with the cinchas; so that it was necessary to throw some pack-hitch that did not require a cincha and hook.

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

She delayed her return to loosen the forward cincha of the saddle and to find the little stock of cigarette-papers and tobacco that she carried for any chance rider of the Moonstone who might be without them.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

As for the mounts, each sorrel tripped easily along under the sextuple folds of the saddle blanket, and the black-skinned McClellan saddle tree, with its broad horsehair cincha and hooded wooden stirrups, minus the useless skirts and sweat leathers.

A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Charles King 1888

The roan with hanging head tripped eagerly, yet wearily, to his accustomed stall, and a swarthy Mexican unloosed at once the _cincha_ and removed the horsehair bridle.

A Wounded Name Charles King 1888