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tangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. South.

See Hatchel.

Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.

A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. De Quincey.

A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

liarly, an old woman. Granny's bend, or Granny's knot (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way.

A half cock, the position of the cock of a gun when retained by the first notch. -- Half hitch, a sailor's knot in a rope; half of a clove hitch. -- Half hose, short stockings; socks. -- Half measure, an imperfect or weak line of action. -- Half note (Mus.), a minim, one half of a semibreve. -- Half pay, half of t…

To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. The friar was hobbling the same way too. Dryden.

Same as Ichnology. Hitchcock.

A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane. Glanvill. Jog trot, a slow, regular, jolting gait; hence, a routine habit or method, persistently adhered to. T. Hook.

To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. Marling spike. (Naut.) See under Marline.

To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.

The footmark of a bird occurring in strata of stone. Hitchcock.

The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites. Hitchcock.

A fossil track resembling that of a bird. Hitchcock.

o separate the blocks. -- To overhaul running rigging, to keep it clear, and see that no hitch occurs.