Hitchname詞源 1

• 1

  A surname transferred from the given name.

Hitchname詞源 2

• 1

  informalAlfred Hitchcock

hitchnoun/hɪt͡ʃ/

• 1

  A sudden pull.

• 2

  Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.

• 3

  A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.

  • His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
• 4

  informalA problem, delay or source of difficulty.

  • The banquet went off without a hitch
  • The service operated according to plan on the Monday morning with only a few hitches.
• 5

  A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.

  • The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?
• 6

  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA period of time spent in the military.

  • She served two hitches in Vietnam.
  • U.S. TROOPS FACE LONGER ARMY HITCH; SOLDIERS BOUND FOR IRAQ, ... WILL BE RETAINED
• 7

  A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.

• 8

  businessminingA hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.

  • 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.
  • A coal cutter and conveyor is used along the face, and after each cut the hitch had to be crossed at a new point.

hitchverb/hɪt͡ʃ/

• 1

  To pull with a jerk.

  • She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt.
• 2

  To attach, tie or fasten.

  • He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping.
  • 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.
• 3

  informalTo marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.

• 4

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

  • atoms[…]which at length hitched together
• 5

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

  • Frank’s breath hitched in his throat when he saw the knife being pointed at him.
  • To ease themselves […] by hitching into another place.
• 6

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

  • Stolen[…]A brown Gelding[…]all his paces, and hitches a little in his pace.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• hitchhike
• to thumb a ride