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Holdback   Listen
noun
Holdback  n.  
1.
Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. "The only holdback is the affection... that we bear to our wealth."
2.
The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.





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"Holdback" Quotes from Famous Books



... no, not there! Belay to that little yard-arm [whiffle-tree]. Got it through the lazy-jack [trace-bearer]? Now reeve your jib-sheets [lines] through them dead-eyes [hame rings] and pass 'em aft. Now where in Tophet does this thingumbob [holdback] go? Give it a turn around the port bowsprit [shaft]. There, guess ...
— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford
... terrible. Away in the southwest, lifting themselves up in a gleam of the western sky, the Great Smoky Mountains loomed like a frowning continental fortress, sullen and remote. With Clingman and Gibbs and Holdback peaks near at hand and apparently of equal height, Mitchell seemed only a part and not separate from the ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner


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