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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

... an attack not by Bolshevists, but by Boy Scouts. They flung themselves across the road in a mass, and would take no nonsense from any one. They insisted that the engine should take a holiday, and that they should hitch themselves to the car. They won their point and hitched. The car, under some hundred boy-power, went up the long hill—and a gruelling hill it is—through the club gates, and down a longer hill, to where, in a deep ...

— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton

... us. The Governors very polite. The soldier man is a Cretan and seemed a good sort. We took tea at the Hotel and then made our way back to the Chatham. Found messages from G.H.Q. to say all's well and stuff being smuggled in without hitch at Anzac. At 7 p.m. we sailed for Imbros; a breeze from the West whipping up little waves into cover for enemy periscopes. So the moment we left the harbour we took on a corkscrew course, dodging and twisting like snipe in an Irish bog, to avoid winding up our trip ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton

... down and threw him, while Lem, seizing the bridle, hauled him over on his side and sat upon his head. Whereupon Jim slipped the loop off one front hoof and pulled the other leg back across one of the hind ones, where both were secured by a quick hitch. Then the lasso was wound and looped around front and back hoofs together. When this had been done the mustang was rolled over on his other side, his free front hoof lassoed and pulled back to the hind one, where both were secured, as had been the others. ...

— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey

... was the devil. Used to make the men hold the women while they whipped em. Make em wear old brogan shoes with buckles across the instep. Had the men and women out fore day plowin'. I member they had my mother out many a day so dark they had to feel where the traces was to hitch up the mules. ...

— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration

... another) is not sufficient to justify us, while we are writing to thousands who never heard of the person, nor of anything like him. Such rarae aves should be remitted to the epitaph writer, or to some poet who may condescend to hitch him in a distich, or to slide him into a rhime with an air of carelessness and neglect, without giving any offence ...

— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

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