单词 | hitch |
释义 | hitchn. 1. a. A short abrupt movement, pull, or push; a jerk. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > jerking > a jerk spang1513 lipe1545 job1560 jert1568 abraid1570 jerk1575 flirta1592 yark1610 slip1615 flerka1653 hitch1674 toss1676 hotch1721 saccade1728 surge1748 flip1821 snatch1822 fling1826 kick1835 chuckc1843 jolt1849 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 122 Some minute or minutes more to bear on towards a second hitch. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. xii. 214 Ben..gives his trowsers one hitch, and calls for a quartern. 1847 D. T. Ansted Anc. World xvi. 401 One more great movement of elevation..acting by successive and repeated hitches, each of small amount. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. xi. 543 Noailles..manœuvres him, hitch after hitch, out of Italy. Categories » b. colloquial. A little lift or push up; ‘temporary assistance; help through a difficulty’ (Ogilvie). c. A catch in or a turn at wrestling. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres swengOE turn?c1225 castc1400 trip1412 fall?a1425 foil1553 collar1581 lock1598 faulx1602 fore-hip1602 forward1602 inturn1602 mare1602 hug1617 disembracement1663 buttock1688 throw1698 back-lock1713 cross-buttock1713 flying horse1713 in holds1713 buttocker1823 chip1823 dogfall1823 cross-buttocker1827 hitch1834 bear hug1837 backfall1838 stop1840 armlock1841 side hug1842 click1846 catch-hold1849 back-breaker1867 back-click1867 snap1868 hank1870 nelson1873 headlock1876 chokehold1886 stranglehold1886 hip lock1888 heave1889 strangle1890 pinfall1894 strangler's grip1895 underhold1895 hammer-lock1897 scissor hold1897 body slam1899 scissors hold1899 armbar1901 body scissors1903 scissors grip1904 waist-hold1904 neck hold1905 scissors1909 hipe1914 oshi1940 oshi-dashi1940 oshi-taoshi1940 pindown1948 lift1958 whip1958 Boston crab1961 grapevine1968 powerbomb1990 1834 H. M. Brackenridge Recoll. ix. 94 I'll stan iny mon a hitch in Butler county, if so be he'll clear me o' the la'. 1880 Harper's Mag. Mar. 525 How with ‘ducking’ heads and muffled screams you..saw them scrambling for a ‘hitch’. 2. Mining. A slight fault or dislocation of strata. ΚΠ 1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 15 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) Sometimes a Pit may happen to have a Hitch or Dipping of the Thill or Bottom of the way. 1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 679 (note) A hitch is only a dike or fissure of a smaller degree. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 283/1 The dykes, if not large, are locally called troubles, slips, or hitches. 3. A limp, a hobble; an interference in a horse's pace. Cf. hitch v. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > limp or interference in pace hitch1664 1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge i. iii. 9 I will as soon undertake to reclaim A Horse from a hitch he has learn'd in his pace. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1748/4 A bay Mare..and hath a hitch in her Pace. 1704 R. Steele Lying Lover i. 2 With a pert Jirk forward, and little Hitch in my Gate like a Scholastick Beau. 1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 9 July (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1562 There is still a considerable hitch or hobble in your enunciation. 4. a. dialect. The act of hopping; a hop: cf. hop n.2 3. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > hopping > a hop hop1508 hitch1799 1799 J. Jefferson Let. to J. Boucher 24 Jan. (MS.) I remember, when a boy, the playing at ‘hitch, step and jump’. 1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 11 Hitch step an' loup some try'd. b. = hitch-hike n. at hitch-hike v. Derivatives. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle > hitch-hike hitch-hike1927 hitch1955 1955 Times 27 Aug. 7/4 They are not asked in the middle of doing 200 miles in four hours for a half-mile ‘hitch’. 1966 J. Philips Wings of Madness (1967) ii. iv. 132 I came down by bus. I thought maybe you'd give me a hitch back. 5. a. The action of catching or fastening in a temporary way, as on a hook, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hook > loop of hook and eye eye1548 eyelet1743 hitch1828 1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. b. A mode of harnessing a horse or team; a vehicle with its horse or team. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal harness1303 plough harnessc1390 geara1400 draught1483 van harness1823 trave harness1839 yoking1873 hitch1876 trace-harness1885 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > with its draught animals plough1505 team1641 Yarmouth coacha1661 rig1831 yoke1894 hitch1912 1876 3rd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1875–6 143 If he can go best in one kind of a hitch, and, in that hitch, make the best time ever made by any horse. 1898 Christian Herald (N.Y.) 2 Mar. 167/2 Several hitches are a mule and steer together. 1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 22 Sept. 12 There were also several other creditable displays, both single and double hitches. 1912 C. E. Mulford & J. W. Clay Buck Peters, Ranchman xxii. 289 I want a hitch of some kind,..something with speed and bottom, and the sooner the better. 6. a. A contrivance for fastening something, a catch. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > [noun] > a fastening fasteningOE closing1382 festela1400 fastenera1425 fastingc1450 fastnessa1550 seizurea1616 closure1616 obligation1646 agraffe1772 fastenment1836 buckling1861 hitch1881 soul and body lashing1883 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 145 Hitch..2. A hole cut in the side-rock, when this is solid enough, to hold the cap of a set of timbers, permitting the leg to be dispensed with. b. Chiefly Nautical. Applied to a noose or knot of various kinds, by which a rope is caught round or temporarily made fast to some object. See clove-hitch n., diamond n. hitch, half hitch n., etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 cat's paw1794 midshipman's hitch1794 reef knot1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 marling hitch1867 wind-knot1870 Portuguese knot1871 rosette1875 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 monkey fist1917 Spanish bowline1968 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors > other specific sailors' knots bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 Magnus hitch1794 midshipman's hitch1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 cat's paw1840 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 Portuguese knot1871 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 Spanish bowline1968 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine H h 3 b They are..attached by a knot, called a clove-hitch, to..the shrouds. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xiii. 181 The monkey of a boy who made her fast..had made a ‘slippery hitch’; so away it went. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 1 What is an admiralty hitch used for? For setting up lower rigging, or heaving turns taut with a marling spike. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling ii. 51 The float..is fastened on with two half hitches. 1888 Cent. Mag. 36 202/2 An expert packer, versed in the mysteries of the ‘diamond hitch’, the only arrangement of the ropes that will insure a load staying in its place. 1894 C. Phillipps-Wolley Gold in Cariboo 61 The diamond hitch had no mysteries for him, the loops flew out and settled to an inch where he wanted them to. 7. figurative. An accidental or temporary stoppage, such as is caused by something suddenly getting caught or entangled; an impediment, obstruction. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation > sudden or accidental checkc1555 hitch1748 syncope1785 hold-up1837 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > a check or rebuff > temporary or minor hocket1276 stick1647 hitch1748 contretemps1809 technical hitch1877 glitch1962 hiccup1965 1748 H. Walpole Let. 16 Feb. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 243 There seems to be some hitch in Legge's Embassy; I believe we were overhasty. 1794 Ld. Malmesbury in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1896) App. v. 577 There was some hitch in the execution of our treaty. 1821 J. W. Croker Diary 3 June in Croker Papers (1884) I There may be some hitch in the arrangement. 1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 172 When any hitch has arisen in the moral system of the human world. 1885 Manch. Examiner 15 May 5/3 A hitch has occurred in regard to the Afghan boundary arrangement. 8. A period of service, e.g. in the armed forces. Chiefly U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] > period of service long service1782 hitch1835 short-service1882 1835 Novascotian (Halifax) 12 Nov. 332/2 At last he said, which way are you from, Mr. Slick, this hitch. 1913 Army & Navy Jrnl. Philippines 4 Oct. 15/1 I had to go or else re-up For seven long years hitch. 1955 ‘C. S. Forester’ Good Shepherd 24 He was new to the ship, a transfer made when they were in Reykjavik, serving his second hitch. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road iv. ii. 257 Another hitch in prison and you'll be put away for life. 1959 Listener 15 Oct. 607/1 Newspapermen who did a hitch in Britain during the war. 1973 Washington Post 13 Jan. A3/2 In his work in intelligence, Pounder had many assignments, including a hitch as part of the White House security detail during President John F. Kennedy's Ireland trip. 9. Soap-making. (See quot. 1885) ΚΠ 1885 W. L. Carpenter Treat. Manuf. Soap 167 Practice alone will enable the operator to judge of the completion of this first operation called ‘pasting’ (French empâtage)... The soap is then said to be..in a ‘hitch’ or ‘glue’. Compounds hitch and kick n. = hitch-kick n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > jumping > long-jump > method of hitch and kick1898 hitch-kick1931 1898 N.Y. Tribune 6 Sept. 9/4 Michael Sweeney, the well-known jumper, broke a world's record in the hitch-and-kick by one inch. hitch-kick n. a form of high-kicking or long-jumping. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > jumping > long-jump > method of hitch and kick1898 hitch-kick1931 1931 F. A. M. Webster Athletes in Action 155 Numerous men using the ‘hitch-kick’, or ‘mid-air-running’ style, have beaten 25 ft. 1957 S. Duncan & K. Bone Oxf. Pocket Bk. Athletic Training (ed. 2) 71 Do not spend time on learning the hitchkick at the expense of developing speed, etc. hitch-knot n. = sense 6b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > temporary knot hitch-knot1847 1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 69 In making large fly-hooks..I bring down the thread and fasten it, with a simple hitch-knot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). hitchv. I. To move jerkily. 1. a. transitive. To move (anything) as with a jerk, or in an abrupt or discontinuous manner; to shift (a thing) a little away or aside. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > cause to move suddenly [verb (transitive)] > jerk braida1000 hitch1440 spang1513 jog1548 jert1566 jerk1582 gag1587 to toss up1588 tossa1618 thrip1674 shrug1678 flip1712 hotch1823 switch1842 slirt1870 hoick1898 quirk1978 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 239/2 Hytchyd, or remevyd, Amotus, remotus. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 239/2 Hytchyn, or remevyn (K. hychyn, P. hytchen, J., W. hythen), amoveo, moveo, removeo. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 401 Another than dyd hyche her, And brought a pottel pycher. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xxiii. 34 Jerusalem..hath somewhat altered her situation, having hitched herself more northwest-ward. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 122 That the spring of the Watch..should by its bear or elasticity hitch it forwards. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ix. 222 Hitching his chair nearer the fire. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxiii. 286 Hitching himself round..looking at me. b. esp. To raise or lift with a jerk. Usually with up. Originally Nautical. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > lift or take up > lift briskly to tick up1586 hitch1834 hoick1898 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiii. 168 So saying, Swinburne hitched up his trowsers, and went down below. 1842 R. H. Barham Misadventures Margate in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 155 And then he hitch'd his trousers up, as is, I'm told, their use. 1861 ‘S. Tytler‘ Papers Thoughtful Girls (1863) 38 Over-prominent shoulderblades, which she had not given over hitching awkwardly. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 168 She hitched this chin up. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iii. 24 She..hitched her dress. c. (See quot. 1888.) Π 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. s.v. A cutting tool moving automatically in a tool holder is said to hitch or catch when it is pulled into the work at a depth greater than it is intended to use. 2. figurative. a. To move or lift as by a jerk into some position; spec. to put (as by an effort) into a story, into verse, or the like; to insert or mention in a literary work, esp. by way of exposure or ridicule. Sometimes apparently associated with sense 5. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > present by literary treatment > by specific kind of literary treatment hitch1749 to do off1819 kill1867 tea-table1938 society > society and the community > social class > accord social rank to [verb (transitive)] > elevate or raise to a higher position raisec1175 elevate1509 amount1523 bear?1529 advance?1566 elate1578 prelate1626 hitch1805 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. i. 150 Hitch him in a Distich. View more context for this quotation 1779 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 355 If..the letter should be caught and hitched into a newspaper, the world would say I was not to be trusted with a secret. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Now we must appear loving and affectionate, or Sneer will hitch us into a story. 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. ii. xiii. 196 The most exalted persons..cruelly hitched in a rhyme, and thrown out to the vulgar. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 58 Our endowed free schools..keep down the price of education..and they hitch into genteel life a number of young men, who are lost to industry. 1889 B. C. Robinson Bench & Bar 305 A few words hitched in here regarding barristers' clerks may not be thought out of place. b. intransitive for passive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > follow occupation of writer [verb (intransitive)] > be inserted or mentioned in a work hitch1733 1733 A. Pope 1st Satire 2nd Bk. Horace Imitated 13 Who-e'er offends, at some unlucky Time Slides into Verse, and hitches in a Rhyme, Sacred to Ridicule! his whole Life long. 1782 W. Mason Dean & 'Squire 194 I ask his pardon. At the time He chanc'd to hitch into my rhyme. 1805 J. Foster Ess. iv. v. 185 (note) Names that may more commodiously hitch into verse. 3. a. intransitive. To shift one's position a little; to move with a jerk or succession of jerks. ΘΠ the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] > shift one's place or position turnOE remuea1393 removea1400 hitch1618 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move along jerkily itch1579 hitch1618 1618 T. Adams Happines of Church ii. 46 When..the place of their hope became an Iland, loe now they hitch vp higher to the toppes of the tallest trees. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 76 To ease themselves a little, by hitching into another place. 18.. W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. The Belgæ..were hitching westward to make room for the Goths. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. xii. 312 Slow Fermor..began hitching southward, southward gradually to Posen. b. To jerk the body up and down; to hotch v. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > make sudden movement [verb (intransitive)] > jerk hotchc1440 hitch?1518 jerk1606 flounce1609 fluce1627 yarka1640 quirk1821 flip1862 ?1518 R. Copland tr. P. Gringore Complaynte them that ben to late Maryed (new ed.) sig. A.iiiv Mo gallantes..ren After a wentche and lepe and hytche Than dogges do about a farowinge bytche. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxix. 15 Quhat mervell than thochte chaist forett..Hichit on þe hure so oppinly? 1868 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. iv. 59 When it was found that they began to hitch and hobble, a good let-up would do more to restore the stroke than anything else. 1889 Cent. Mag. 907/2 I do not know what would happen to a man who ‘hitched’ in his saddle. 4. a. To walk unevenly or lamely; to hobble; (also dialect) to hop. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unevenly hobble1362 clockc1400 hirple?a1500 hitch1513 himp1533 cramble1607 himple1656 hoit1786 tolter1821 hippity-hoppity1830 clop1863 hippity hop1879 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > hop hipc1275 hop1700 hitch1868 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xi. 114 The tother..Hichit on furth with slaw pace lyke ane trat. a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 395 Fra the how to the hight, some hobles, some hatches [? error for hitches; rhymes ‘witches’, ‘bitches’]; With their mouthes to the moone, murgeons they maid. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Hobble To walk lamely or awkwardly upon one leg more than the other; to hitch. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Hitch, to move or walk. Norf. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. v. 253 Surely also Punishment, this day, hitches (if she still hitch) after Crime, with frightful shoes-of-swiftness. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Hitch, to move a short distance in any direction; to hop. 1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls x. 170 She began to hitch along; for walk she wouldn't, and she didn't. b. = hitch-hike v. Also transitive. to hitch a lift, etc.: to obtain a lift in a vehicle. ΘΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > thumb (a lift) > make one's way by lifts to bum one's way1877 to hitch a lift1931 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > hitch-hike hitch-hike1923 thumb1932 hitch1959 swamp1964 1931 ‘B. Starke’ Touch & Go ix. 133 She told me she had hitched her way down to New Orleans a week before. 1931 ‘B. Starke’ Touch & Go xii. 192 Two lads spoke to me, and asked if I were hitching it by myself. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 94 Hitch a lift, or ride. 1959 ‘G. Carr’ Swing Away, Climber i. 17 We hitched—got lifts, you know—from Birmingham. 1960 Sunday Express 6 Nov. 7/5 The car in which he had hitched a lift crashed into a lorry. 1963 Guardian 4 Feb. 6/5 They hitch there and back. II. To fasten by something that catches. 5. a. transitive. To catch as with a loop, noose, or hook; to fasten, esp. in a temporary way (and against force acting in one direction). Also absol. and figurative. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > fasten with a loop or noose hank1357 hitch1627 loop1837 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 30 Hitch, is to catch hold of any thing with a rope to hold it fast, or with a hooke, as hitch the fish-hooke to the Anchors flooke, or the Tackles into the Garnets of the Slings. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 14/1 Little knobs..against which the ropes were hitched, to prevent their slipping. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 60 Hitching your knife in the gritty flaws of a black-lead pencil. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 102 Hitching our shawls in a bramble. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xix. 162 The hunter..hitches the running noose of the lariat over his [the wild horse's] head by means of the forked stick. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 351 The tackle is to be hitched on, and the horse run up quickly. 1845 J. J. Hooper Taking Census i. 151 We rode up..and hitching to the fence, walked into the house. 1855 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Invertebr. Animals (ed. 2) xiv. 303 Sometimes the crab hitches one of its claws into some crack or fissure. 1864 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 262 A stone under a glacier may be hitched or suspended in the ice itself for long spaces. 1870 A. L. Gordon Bush Ballads 35 I hitched my mare to a tree. 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church in Church Bells Devon ii. 217 Bells are sometimes chimed by..hitching the rope round the flight or tail of the clapper. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 286 He..hitched this hat upon a peg in the wall. b. figurative. To catch, arrest (attention, etc.). rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)] exercisea1538 entertainc1540 replenish1548 rouse1583 catcha1586 amuse1586 detainc1595 attract1599 grope1602 concerna1616 take1634 stay1639 engage1642 meet1645 nudge1675 strike1697 hitcha1764 seize1772 interest1780 acuminate1806 arrest1835 grip1891 intrigue1894 grab1966 work1969 a1764 R. Lloyd Ruff. Poet in Wks. (1774) I. 171 As gaudy signs, which hang before The tavern or the alehouse door, Hitch every passer's observation. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. xvi. 317 As if the mind were equally hitched in difficulties and distracted with doubts. c. with up: To harness, yoke; absol. ‘To harness a horse to a vehicle, make ready for driving’ ( Cent. Dict.). U.S. So hitch to (Australian). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (intransitive)] > harness inspan1834 hitch1844 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > harness or yoke yokeOE harness13.. cart-saddle1377 join1377 couple1393 enharness1490 benda1522 bind1535 span1550 team1552 spang1580 inyoke1595 trace1605 enclose?1615 gear1638 to get in1687 reharness1775 reyoke1813 to hook up1825 inspan1834 hitch1844 pole1846 stock1909 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [noun] alligation1538 pertinence1610 confixure1654 attachment1765 hitch1844 1844 J. J. Webb Memoirs 206 Everything arranged, we hitched up, and started on our route. 1870 R. W. Emerson Civilization in Wks. (1906) III. 11 Now that is the wisdom of a man..to hitch his waggon to a star. 1870 E. E. Hale Ten Times One iv He would hitch up at once and drive over to Elyria. 1880 Earl of Dunraven in 19th Cent. Oct. 606 There was nothing for us to do but hitch up our teams and drive back to settlements. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 127 The three leaders was hitched to, and away we went. d. to hitch horses together (also short, to hitch): to agree, get on well together, act in harmony. U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > get on (well) gree?a1513 to get in with1602 cotton1605 to hitch (also set, or stable) horses together1617 to hit it1634 gee1685 to set horses together1685 to be made for each other (also one another)1751 to hit it off1780 to get ona1805 to hitch horses together1835 niggle1837 to step together1866 to speak (also talk) someone's (also the same) language1893 to stall with1897 cog1926 groove1935 click1954 vibe1986 1835 Capt. M'Clintock in Atkinson's Casket June After he poked his fist in my face, one 'lection, we never hitched horses together. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xxv. 160 They [man and wife] don't hitch their horses together well at all. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xiv. 116 I come on to drive a spell for this here old feller,..but I guess we sha'nt hitch long. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. ii. i. 63 An' so we fin'lly made it up, concluded to hitch hosses. e. passive. To be yoked; figurative to be married. U.S. Also to get hitched up: to be married, to become married (chiefly dialect and New Zealand). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] weda1225 marrya1325 spousec1390 to make matrimonyc1400 intermarry1528 contract1530 to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535 to make a match1547 yoke1567 match1569 mate1589 to go to church (with a person)1600 to put one's neck in a noosec1600 paira1616 to join giblets1647 buckle1693 espouse1693 to change (alter) one's condition1712 to tie the knot1718 to marry out1727 to wedlock it1737 solemnize1748 forgather1768 unite1769 connubiate1814 conjugalize1823 connubialize1870 splice1874 to get hitched up1890 to hook up1903 1857 J. G. Holland Bay-path xv. 172 Now and then a feller gets hitched to a hedge-hog [of a wife]. 1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. x If you mean gettin hitched, I'm in! 1890 S. S. Buckman John Darke's Sojourn in Cotteswolds xxii. 202 'Twarn't long avor we got hitched up together. 1911 ‘Kiwi’ On the Swag vii. 14 Elsie and I got ‘hitched up’. 1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target iii. 24 That's the fifth o the old gang to get hitched up in five months. 6. intransitive. To become fastened or caught, esp. by hooking on; to be caught or stopped by some obstruction; to catch on something. Also figurative. ΘΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > be arrested or intercepted in progress steek?a1400 sticka1450 lodge1611 intercept1612 catch1620 clog1633 jam1706 rake1725 fasten1744 set1756 hitch1897 seize1917 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xxx. 487 The leaues..ende with clasping tendrelles, whereby it hitcheth fast and taketh sure hold. 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 25 The Anker hitcht againe, and upon the chopping of a Sea, threw the men from the Capstang. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §167 (note) We have had instances of the boat's gunnel hitching under a stone in the tackle. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 176 The lariat hitched on one of his ears, and he shook it off. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 583 My descent being arrested by a collection of brush brushwood and rubbish..which had hitched far down in the shaft. 7. Of a horse: to strike the feet together in going; to interfere. (Perhaps related to sense 4. Cf. hitch n. 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > strike one leg against other interfere1530 overreach1590 cut1660 hitch1686 click1713 brush1868 1686 London Gaz. No. 2128/4 Stolen..A brown Gelding..all his paces, and hitches a little in his pace. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Hitch,..to knock the Legs in going as a Horse does. Derivatives hitching n. (also attributive as in hitching-bar, hitching-clamp, hitching-post, hitching-strap, hitching-weight, i.e. one used in tethering a horse). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > jerking hitchingc1440 twitching1478 yarking?1561 flirting1593 flouncing1601 jerking1851 pecking1890 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > a turn of rope round anything hitchingc1440 round turn1794 lingtow1815 belay1908 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > tether > hitching post or rail range1688 tether-stake1725 tether-sticka1800 hitching-post1842 picket-pin1844 tie-post1861 tether-stone1884 tie rail1920 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > tether tether1376 sealc1440 solec1440 picket line1768 head rope1810 leg rope1826 trail-rope1826 lariat1835 riata1846 mecate1849 hitching-weight1852 tie-strap1875 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > hitch-hiking autostop1938 hitch-hiking1959 hitching1963 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 239/2 Hytchinge, or remevynge [v.r. hichynge, hyhchynge], amocio, remocio. 1678 J. Bunyan Welcome to Jesus in Pilgrim's Progress (Virtue) 379 The desire of his mind is not to be judged by the slow pace of the dull beast he rides, as by his hitching, kicking, and spurring. 1842 J. L. Scott Jrnl. Missionary Tour Pennsylvania (1843) vi. 68 When at the door they alighted, and he rode off to the ‘hitching post’. 1852 C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand 67 [He] pulled a hitching-strap from under the seat, and fastened his off-horse very neatly to a lamp-post. 1871 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stories 84 All the hitchin'-posts was full clean up to the tavern. 1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 96/2 Every available hitching-post [for horses] in sight was taken. 1884 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham xviii. 336 He got the hitching-weight from under the buggy seat and made it fast to the mare's bit. 1920 J. Gregory Man to Man ix. 103 A dozen saddle-horses were tied at the hitching-rail. 1926 J. Black You can't Win ix. 108 I..limped outside where I had an old ‘swift’ tied to a hitching rack. 1963 Guardian 4 Feb. 6/3 At weekends hitching..is widely practised. 1963 J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1964) xviii. 216 ‘Oh, Gargoyle, darling,’ she said, sitting down on an old hitching block at the edge of the Rosedale pavement, ‘isn't it too gorgeous?’ hitching adj. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adjective] > jerking yarking1565 jerking1653 flerking1710 hitching1832 squibbing1895 1832 Examiner 790/1 Nothing lets down a smart hit so lamentably as a hitching verse or hobbling rhyme. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 130 The sail is..laced to the yard with hitching turns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : hitch-comb. form < see also |
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