intransitive verb. To fasten, connect, or attach.

intransitive verb. To move or raise by pulling or jerking.

intransitive verb. To get (a ride) by hitchhiking.

intransitive verb. To marry.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To move jerkily.

intransitive verb. To move or walk haltingly.

intransitive verb. To hitchhike.

noun. Any of various knots used as a temporary fastening.

noun. A device used to connect one thing to another.

noun. A short jerking motion; a tug.

noun. A hobble or limp.

noun. An impediment or a delay.

noun. A term of service, especially of military service.

noun. A free ride obtained along a road.

To move by jerks or with pauses or rests; hop; hobble; halt; limp, literally or figuratively: as, to hitch along on the ground; verse that hitches.

To be fastened, entangled, or snarled; catch.

To strike the feet together in going; interfere, as a horse.

To get on with another, as if in harness; work smoothly together.

To pull up; raise by jerks.

To fasten, especially in a temporary or occasional way; make fast; tether; tie up by means of a hook, a ring, a bridle, a rope, etc.

Nautical, to cover with a network of twine or small cord, worked with one end.

noun. In mining:

noun. A hole or pocket made to receive the end of a timber.

noun. The sudden stoppage of a pumping-engine.

noun. In yachting, a tack.

noun. A large chub, Lavinia exilicauda, found in the waters of California. Also chi.

To catch or dig into: said specifically of a tool that digs too deeply into a piece of work that is being cut.

In mining, to dig or pick (pockets) to receive the ends of timbers.

noun. A pull or jerk upward: as, to give one's trousers a hitch.

noun. The act of catching or fastening, as on a hook, a post, etc.

noun. A halt; an impediment; a stoppage; an obstruction, especially of an unexpected and temporary nature: as, a hitch in the proceedings; a hitch in one's gait.

noun. In mining, a slight fault or dislocation.

noun. Temporary assistance; timely help: as, to lend one a hitch.

noun. Nautical, a knot or noose in a rope for making it fast to another rope or to a spar or other object: as, a clove hitch, a rolling hitch, etc.

noun. plural In whaling, the fastening of their on strap on the socket of a toggle-iron.

intransitive verb. To hitchhike; -- mostly used in the phrase to hitch a ride.

transitive verb. To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

transitive verb. To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.

transitive verb. To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

transitive verb. To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke.

transitive verb. To move with hitches.

transitive verb. To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare.

noun. A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.

noun. The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.

noun. A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle

noun. A sudden movement or pull; a pull up.

noun. A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening

noun. A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

noun. A sudden pull.

"You've asked me about what you call my hitch, and so far as it goes she'll explain it to you."

becket-hitch  blackwall  diamond hitch  magnus hitch  marlinespike hitch  

hitched  hitching  unhitch  unhitched  

connect  connecter  connection  connective  connector  

Fitch  Ich  Mich  Mitch  Rich  

drawback  glitch  interruption  

hitchhike  acute pain  amble  arrange a match  articulate  

hitchhike  

hitched  hitches  hitching