Hitching

Word HITCHING
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈhɪtʃɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Hitching"

What do we mean by hitching?

To pull with a jerk.

To attach, tie or fasten.

To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.

Contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.

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

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

To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

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The word "hitching" in example sentences

At the outset of his opinion, he quarreled with the court majority's use of the term "hitching post." ❋ Unknown (2011)

She remained very still, the only sound her own breaths coming in short, hitching gasps. ❋ Coben, Harlan, 1962- (1995)

They were much pleased and delighted, but they had the idea of hitching Snap to the express wagon, and they could not get that out of their minds. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)

He must have recalled the hitching-rail, the sun, and the flies, and preferred to risk even a road that he did not know, for on he went -- quietly. ❋ Nelson Lloyd (1903)

But unfortunately, as Muir predicted, even his beloved Sierra Club wasn't immune to "hitching" itself to one thing forgetting how that thing was "hitched" to everything else in the Universe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She didn't have a horse collar, and the cart didn't have any kind of hitching tree, but if she could get one of the ponies strapped into this, she bet she could use pony-power to pull the cart back here. ❋ Edghill, Rosemary (2002)

It's going to take some creative "hitching" to find the ride home that I need. ❋ Burnes, Caroline (2001)

They always sat on the same perch, and on cool days as near each other as possible, first one and then the other "hitching" a little nearer. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)

A sleigh came slowly grating along the half-bare street, and its occupant, Mr Silas Spears, not one of her favourites, stopped before the door, and lost no time in "hitching" his horse to the post. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Breckenridge: Man falls off van while 'hitching' taxi ride ❋ Unknown (2009)

A hitching post in the front of the house dates back to the 19th century. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)

A hitching post in the front of the house dates to the 19th century. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)

Minus my right stirrup I screech into Hanga Roa, pull into the first tavern, wrap the reins around a hitching post, and mosey inside for a brew. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

But he was hitching a ride on outsider images of Japanese culture — was that cultural appropriation and misrepresentation? ❋ Unknown (2009)

For his Cannon Beach entry earlier this month, his team made a "Sand Bar," where sea horses made of sand were tied to a sand hitching post, near a sand sheriff and not far from a sand "pool" shark shooting a rack of balls with a sand seal. ❋ Joel Millman (2011)

The woman took that moment to bolt for the window, hitching herself up with a moan of desperation. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

American astronauts will keep hitching rides to the space station on Russian capsules, until private companies are able to provide taxi service to and from orbit. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“Racogorrix, yeah,” Rytlock supplied, hitching a claw over his shoulder. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

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