Hitch
[hɪtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.
(noun.) a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot.
(noun.) a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls.
(verb.) to hook or entangle; 'One foot caught in the stirrup'.
(verb.) connect to a vehicle: 'hitch the trailer to the car'.
Typed by Gus--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
(v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
(v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
(v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
(v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
(n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
(n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
(n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
(n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
(n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
(n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.
Typed by Bartholdi
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Go by jerks.
v. a. Fasten, tie, attach.
n. [1]. Catch, impediment, obstacle, hinderance, check.[2]. Jerk, jerking motion.[3]. (Naut.) Knot, noose.
Inputed by Emilia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stick, stickle, oar, jam, catch, hang
ANT:Run, glide, elide, rotate, flow
Inputed by Boris
Definition
v.i. to move by jerks as if caught by a hook: to be caught by a hook: to be caught or fall into.—v.t. to hook: to catch: to fasten tether esp. to make fast a rope.—n. a jerk: a catch or anything that holds: an obstacle: a sudden halt: (naut.) a species of knot by which one rope is connected with another or to some object—various knots are the Clove-hitch Timber-hitch Blackwall-hitch &c.—n. Hitch′er.—adv. Hitch′ily.—adj. Hitch′y.—Hitch up to harness a horse to a vehicle.
Checker: Noelle
Examples
- When the lad ended she began, precisely in the same words, and ranted on without hitch or divergence till she too reached the end. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Now for the hitch in Jane's character, he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Miss Wren, with her usual expressive hitch, went on with her work. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Right or wrong,' muttered Miss Wren, inaudibly, with a visible hitch of her chin, 'I mean to do it, and you may make up your mind to THAT, old lady. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This little hitch did not affect the final success of the scheme. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hitch your wagon to a star, said Emerson. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Not,' she added with the quaint hitch of her chin and eyes, 'that you need be a very wonderful godmother to do that deed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She had an elfin chin that was capable of great expression; and whenever she gave this look, she hitched this chin up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When you come down-stairs into the kitchen with the candle in your hand, and hitched my apron off my head. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr Boffin hitched up a chair, and added his broad brown right hand to the heap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What is inherently repulsive is endured for the sake of averting something still more repulsive or of securing a gain hitched on by others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He only needed to be hitched on, he needed that his hand should be set to the task, because he was so unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I asked to have him hitched to a farm wagon and we would soon see whether he would work. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were then led out, harnessed by force and hitched to the wagon in the position they had to keep ever after. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Newcomen and Watt had not then demonstrated that steam was not unconquerable, but the hitching it to the slow barge and the rapid car was yet to come. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Den Uncle Peter mus'n't sit in it, cause he al'ays hitches when he gets a singing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The machine worked with hitches, not nearly so smoothly nor so efficiently as it should, but it did work; it gathered the grain in and it left it in good shape to be raked off the platform. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Pearl