hitch-comb. form
/ˈhɪtʃreɪl/, U.S. /ˈhɪtʃˌreɪl/. in combinations = hitching n. at hitch v. Derivatives) U.S.
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1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne i. 7 I jumped off my horse and threw him one end of my hitch-rein and pulled him out.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xxi. 138 Tying our horses in a group to a hitch-rack in the rear of a saloon.
1906 H. D. Pittman Belle of Bluegrass Country xiii. 187 A slim-legged yellow girl..swinging by her arms from a hitch rail.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. June 714/1 It needs many a coat of paint, clean, and hitch-up.
1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 61 A coast-to-coast hitch-up.
1954 Encounter Oct. 3/1 The hitch-rail enclosing the county court-house.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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