16 Verbs to Use for the Word hitched

Then he gave a little hitch to his red head covering, and sauntered away humming between his teeth.

You see him again and againas a cowboy in Texas, as a miner or herdsman all through the Far West; you see him cutting lumber along the Columbia, or throwing the diamond hitch as he goes from camp to camp for gold and freedom.

'Thank you for nothing,' says he, and he opened his month like the entrance to a railroad tunnel, and blame me, if he hadn't taken a double hitch of the line around his eye tooth, while the hook hung harmless beside his jaw.

Helen was afraid she would cause some hitch in the performance.

" "If he do come," said the stout, elderly neighbor, "I wish you'd let me know, Tom Peckett, fur my black mar has got a hitch in her shoulder I can't understand, and I'd like him to look at her.

He knew a jam hitch which he caught over and under his hook quicker than most men can grasp a line with the naked hand.

He had sprung from his concealment and was now working to loosen the half-hitch from the rock.

They had caught and saddled the horses; Ray was pulling tight the last hitch.

Davis drew the rope taut under the cinch and tied Jack's other ankle as if he were putting the diamond hitch on a pack mule.

I belayed the rope to the second cleat and set a half-hitch on the turns.

Some haouw I couldn't make up my mind which I'd hev, and kept dodgin', all ready to slew raound, an' hitch on tew ary

" "Job," said Salters, turning to his grandson, "tell Jake ter hitch up de mules, an' you stay dere an' help him.

No man's power could have stopped him so short; the cunning enemy had turned a half-hitch around the top of that deep-rooted rock.

Then seems to come a hitch,things lag behind,

Not perhaps said in words, but expressed as clearly by the warlike angle of an arm, the contumelious hitch of a shoulder, or the scornful sweep of an adverse skirt.

More than once has Mr. Coleridge said, that with pen in hand, he felt a thousand checks and difficulties in the expression of his meaning; but thatauthorship asidehe never found the smallest hitch or impediment in the fullest utterance of his most subtle fancies by word of mouth.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  hitched