hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: hitches
form: hitching
form: hitched
form: hitched
Etymology: Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike.
Senses: examples: text: She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt.
glosses: To pull with a jerk.
examples: text: He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping.
text: Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The company has hitched its future to artificial intelligence — whether with its voice-enabled digital assistant or its automated placement of advertising for marketers — as the breakthrough technology to make the next generation of services and devices smarter and more capable.
ref: 2020 December 3, Cade Metz, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: affix
word: join
word: put together
word: accouple
word: affix
word: assemble
word: associate
word: attach
word: bewed
word: bind
word: clasp
word: clinch
word: combine
word: conglomerate
word: conglutinate
word: conjoin
word: connect
word: construct
word: couple
word: entwine
word: fay
word: fix
word: graft
word: hitch
word: hook
word: inosculate
word: interlink
word: join
word: joint
word: knit
word: knot
word: link
word: marry
word: piece together
word: piecen
word: pinion
word: put together
word: splice
word: unite
word: wed
word: yoke
glosses: To attach, tie or fasten.
synonyms: word: splice
word: wed
word: bewed
word: conjoin
word: couple
word: espouse
word: handfast
word: hitch
word: join
word: marry
word: splice
word: spouse
word: wed
glosses: To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
examples: text: to hitch a ride
glosses: Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
examples: text: atoms[…]which at length hitched together
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
examples: text: Frank’s breath hitched in his throat when he saw the knife being pointed at him.
ref: 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
text: To ease themselves […] by hitching into another place.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
examples: text: Stolen[…]A brown Gelding[…]all his paces, and hitches a little in his pace.
ref: 1686, London Gazette:
glosses: To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
Derived terms: hitcher
hitchhike
hitchhiker
hitching
hitching-bar
hitching post
hitching rail
hitchment
hitch one's wagon to a star
skitch
unhitch
unhitched