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Hold-down   /hoʊld-daʊn/   Listen
Hold-down

noun
1.
A limitation or constraint.





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"Hold-down" Quotes from Famous Books



... of dirty red showed mottlings of brown; she was sadly in need of a painter's gun. She would groan and squeal, Chet knew, when the fans lifted her from the hold-down clutch; and she couldn't fly at over twenty thousand without leaking her internal pressure through a thousand cracks that made her porous as an old balloon—but to Chet's eyes the old relic of the years was a thing of ...
— The Finding of Haldgren • Charles Willard Diffin


Words linked to "Hold-down" :   hold down, restriction, limitation


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