hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: hitches
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: glosses: A sudden pull.
glosses: Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
examples: text: His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
glosses: A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
examples: text: The banquet went off without a hitch
translation: The banquet went smoothly.
english: The banquet went smoothly.
text: The service operated according to plan on the Monday morning with only a few hitches.
ref: 1961 July, “Glasgow emergency - the restoration of Clydeside steam suburban services”, in Trains Illustrated, page 432:
text: Over the next week, the hitch in my dad's stride eased a bit. But we'd run out of things to talk about.
ref: 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 110:
glosses: A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
examples: text: The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?
synonyms: catch
glosses: A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
examples: text: She served two hitches in Vietnam.
text: U.S. TROOPS FACE LONGER ARMY HITCH; SOLDIERS BOUND FOR IRAQ, ... WILL BE RETAINED
ref: 2004, June 3, Stephen J. Hedges & Mike Dorning, Chicago Tribune; Orlando Sentinel; page pg. A.1
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A period of time spent in the military.
glosses: A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
examples: text: An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.
ref: 1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17:
text: A coal cutter and conveyor is used along the face, and after each cut the hitch had to be crossed at a new point.
ref: 1897, Great Britain. Mines Department, Mines and Quarries. Reports ... for the Newcastle District (No. 3) (page 32)
topics: business
mining
glosses: A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
Hyponyms: hitch in one's get-along
hitch in one's giddy-up
Magnus hitch
midshipman's hitch
rigger's hitch
rolling hitch
taut-line hitch
tent-line hitch
Derived terms: sense: many are hyponyms too (unsorted)
word: adjustable hitch
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word: anchor hitch
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word: axle hitch
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word: Bachmann hitch
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word: barrel hitch
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word: becket hitch
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word: Blackwall hitch
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word: buntline hitch
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word: clove hitch
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word: clove-hitch
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word: cow hitch
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word: double becket hitch
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word: figure-eight hitch
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word: friction hitch
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word: half hitch
sense: many are hyponyms too (unsorted)
word: half-hitch
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word: hitch-hike → hitch-hiker
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word: hitchless
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word: hitch one's wagon to
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word: hitchrack
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word: hitch rack
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word: hitchrail
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word: hitch up
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word: hitchy
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word: Italian hitch
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word: killick hitch
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word: killock hitch
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word: magnus hitch
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word: manharness hitch
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word: Munter hitch
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word: ossel hitch
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word: sailor's hitch
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word: swab hitch
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word: timber hitch
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word: tow hitch
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word: trailer hitch
sense: many are hyponyms too (unsorted)
word: trucker's hitch
sense: many are hyponyms too (unsorted)
word: weaver's hitch