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Hitch   /hɪtʃ/   Listen
Hitch

noun
1.
A period of time spent in military service.  Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty.
2.
The state of inactivity following an interruption.  Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage.  "Held them in check" , "During the halt he got some lunch" , "The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow" , "He spent the entire stop in his seat"
3.
An unforeseen obstacle.  Synonyms: hang-up, rub, snag.
4.
A connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls.
5.
A knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot.
6.
Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome.  Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive.
7.
The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.  Synonyms: hobble, limp.
verb
(past & past part. hitched; pres. part. hitching)
1.
To hook or entangle.  Synonym: catch.
2.
Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury.  Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp.
3.
Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched.  Synonyms: buck, jerk.
4.
Travel by getting free rides from motorists.  Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb.
5.
Connect to a vehicle:.



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"Hitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... elbow was hitched in the weather rigging and a half hitch around his waist—the skipper swung around, and looking over to the Withrow, ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
... you have wound wire upon a core or spool, keep it from untwisting by taking a loop or hitch around it with the wire. Fig. 55 shows how this is done. Pull the end of the wire enough to make the ...
— How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus • Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John
... fell my shoulder struck the bulge of the iron carcase of the vessel, and I cannoned off into the void, but by the merest chance my clutching hands in that instant caught in the hitch of a rope which had strayed overboard. The loop ran out with my wrist in it, and I hit the water. Its roar was in my ears, but nothing else, and when I rose to the surface the ship was thirty yards away. But the rope was still over my arm, and as soon ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... sense then I've been ridin' a good Deal through the Kankakee neighberhood; And I make it convenient sometimes to stop And hitch a few minutes, and kind o' drop In at the widder's, and talk o' the crop And one thing o' 'nother. And week afore last The notion struck me, as I drove past, I'd stop at the place and state my case— Might as well do it at first ...
— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley
... Muse has gone away, Does not haunt me much to-day. Everything she had to say Has been said! 'Twas not much at any time She could hitch into a rhyme, Never was the Muse sublime, Who ...
— Ban and Arriere Ban • Andrew Lang


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