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Hitch   /hɪtʃ/   Listen
noun
Hitch  n.  
1.
A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
2.
The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
3.
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.
4.
A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
5.
(Naut.) 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.
6.
(Geol.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.


verb
Hitch  v. t.  
1.
To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. "Atoms... which at length hitched together."
2.
To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded. "Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme." "To ease themselves... by hitching into another place."
3.
To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. (Eng.)


Hitch  v. t.  (past & past part. hitched; pres. part. hitching)  
1.
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; hitch your wagon to a star.
2.
To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
To hitch up.
(a)
To fasten up.
(b)
To pull or raise with a jerk; as, a sailor hitches up his trousers.
(c)
To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare. (Colloq.)


Hitch  v. i.  To hitchhike; mostly used in the phrase to hitch a ride; as, he hitched his way home; he hitched a ride home.





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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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