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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



... her lambs thegither, Was ae day nibbling on the tether, Upon her cloot she coost a hitch, An' owre she warsl'd in the ditch: There, groaning, dying, she did lie, When Hughoc ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... a few crossroads settlements—"hitch-rail towns"—unpainted and ramshackle, but nowhere was there an attempt at farming, for this part of Texas had gone hog wild over oil. Abandoned straw stacks had settled and molded, cornfields had grown up to weeds, what few head of cattle still remained lolled ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... more substantial for out-of-door wear, start several letters east telling of my safe arrival, buy the things I had overlooked, store my surplus clothes with the postmaster at the general store, and repack my kit for pony travel. Then, after watching Big Pete skilfully throw the diamond hitch, we were off for the hills and our first camp. I hoped that I was on my way to find my real father and unravel the mystery that surrounded my strange babyhood. But I little guessed what adventures I was to have or the strange things ...
— The Black Wolf Pack • Dan Beard
... of the rope around the ankle of one negro and wrapped the other end around the ankle of the other, drawing their feet together and fastening the ends of the rope with a double hitch, which she knew ...
— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins
... slopping water right and left from his modish, curly-brimmed hat in his frantic haste; this he set down at Diana's command and, turning away, began to stride up and down, muttering agitated anathemas upon himself and scowling ferociously at the two horses, which I had taken the opportunity to hitch to an adjacent gatepost. ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol


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