cinching

"Just for that you get an extra cinching," he informed me.

Again she mused on the intelligence of such tight cinching.

"The sod's not even holding his breath to bloat up and loosen the cinching."

Many men claim this method is more effective and more comfortable because it requires no cinching of the waist or periodic adjustment.

She just nodded, as though confirming the cinching of a wager with someone about what Skeeter Jackson was up to now.

Casting off their superfluous furs and blankets, and with a final cinching of belts, they came to attention.

Daylight superintended the preparations, adjusting the curb strap and the stirrup length, and doing the cinching.

The cinching and winching of the human body has been taken to such absurd degrees in the last half millennium that it is no surprise that even in this emancipated age of sweatsuits people still feel some ancient urge to cast off social restraints and, like, let it all hang out.