To detain, hold back, stop (a person or thing); to check or arrest the progress of, bring to a halt; to hinder from going on or going away; to…

transitive. Originally: to keep in custody or under control; to prevent from leaving. Later usually of an object: to hold (something) fixed in a…

Not (yet) gone or departed. †to keep ungone (Sc.), to keep from going.

To retain in a place or position by moral constraint; to restrain from going away; to cause or induce to remain; to detain. Also figurative.

(Originally said of Australian bushrangers.) To ‘stick up’ travellers in order to rob them; to ‘corner’ a wild boar (or other hunted animal); (in…