hitch

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.

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

2. 2
   noun

   A problem, delay or source of difficulty.

   The banquet went off without a hitch

3. 3
   noun

   A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A period of time spent in the military.

   She served two hitches in Vietnam.

5. 5
   noun

   A 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.

6. 6
   verb

   To pull with a jerk.

   She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt.

7. 7
   verb

   To attach, tie or fasten.

   He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping.

8. 8
   verb

   Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.

   to hitch a ride

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.