Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as kench.
  • noun A bundle: same as knitch.
  • noun A slip-knot; figuratively, a hold; an advantage.
  • To twist a cord about, as about the tongue or nose of a horse.

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Examples

  • Though they're going by "kinch" on the official Warped Tour bill (an effort to seem hipper to the kids?), we're confident they won't use too much guy-liner in their efforts to mimic the look that today's teens love.

    Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • Though they're going by "kinch" on the official Warped Tour bill (an effort to seem hipper to the kids?), we're confident they won't use too much guy-liner in their efforts to mimic the look that today's teens love.

    Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • Though they're going by "kinch" on the official Warped Tour bill (an effort to seem hipper to the kids?), we're confident they won't use too much guy-liner in their efforts to mimic the look that today's teens love.

    Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • NattoKun: I i left san francisco before ubuntu opened but i have enjoyed chef jeremy fox's/david kinch food many times prior. can't wait to check it out. if u are ever in new york

    Manresa Restaurant - Los Gatos, California 2008

  • Yes | No | Report from andy wrote 1 year 31 weeks ago might as well have some more. kinch, carter, richard dawson, dont even try the little french guy, you'll be laughed at, burkehalter, I forgot the good lookin blond, inga mabey

    Name My Dog 2008

  • They uttered their faith in these words: "Yadidam kinch sarvam prâna éjati nihsratam" (All that is vibrates with life, having come out from life).

    Creative Unity Rabindranath Tagore 1901

  • I thought they would never have come, for my shoeless feet were all bruised, and bleeding from the crunched lime and the splinters of broken stones; but at long and last, a ladder was hoisted up, and having fastened a kinch of ropes beneath her oxters, I let her slide down over the upper step, by way of a pillyshee, having the satisfaction of seeing her safely landed in the arms of seven old wives, that were waiting with

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • I thought they would never have come, for my shoeless feet were all bruised, and bleeding from the crunched lime and the splinters of broken stones; but, at long and last, a ladder was hoisted up, and having fastened a kinch of ropes beneath her oxters, I let her slide down over the upper step, by way of a pillyshee, having the satisfaction of seeing her safely landed in the arms of seven old wives, that were waiting with

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

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