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ˈhold-back
[f. hold back: see hold v. 34.]
1. Something that holds one back; a hindrance.
1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 9 To get the garland, by breaking in sunder those hookes, and hold⁓backs. 1640Hammond Serm., Poor man's Tithing Wks. 1684 IV. 555 The only holdback is the affection and passionate love, that we bear to our wealth. 1863Mrs. Whitney Faith Gartney xix. (ed. 18) 179 Other families had similar holdbacks, that is the word, for they were not absolute insuperabilities.
2. The iron or strap on the shaft of a vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached. Also hold-back hook.
1850N.H. Hist. Soc. Coll. VI. 220 The hold-backs of his harness gave way, and precipitated his gig upon the horse. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Hold-back Hook, a projection on a carriage-shaft, to which the breeching-strap of a horse is connected, to enable the animal to hold back the vehicle.
3. The act of holding back. Also attrib., unprogressive.
1852Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. III. 333 A few specimens of the hold-back and stand-still class. 1888‘Buffalo Bill’ Story of Wild West 627 There was no brake on the wagon, and the horses were not much on the hold back. |