transitive. To get, obtain, acquire; to win, gain; to procure (something) for someone, furnish, provide. Also: to take hold of, seize. Obsolete.

transitive. To succeed in obtaining (something officially required); to procure or provide (money, bail, sureties, †hostages, etc.). Cf. sense 17.

To gain, to win, get possession of.

transitive. To obtain possession of (property, etc.) as the result of effort or (esp.) contrivance.

transitive. To acquire, succeed in gaining, get possession of (by effort); to win, gain, attain to.

transitive. To obtain, esp. by seizure; to gain, acquire, get possession of. Obsolete.

transitive. To acquire or obtain, esp. with care or effort; to gain, get possession of (now the usual sense). In early use also: †to secure the…

transitive. To gain, acquire, or earn (money, reputation, etc.) by labour, business, or the like. Often with from, of, out of (less commonly by)…

Chiefly with out: To get by artifice or patient effort; to ascertain, elicit (a fact or opinion). Const. from, out of. Cf. Latin expiscari.

transitive. To obtain with effort (something pursued or fought for); to attain; to get possession of. Obsolete.

transitive. To procure.

To come into the possession of, to gain by effort, acquire, obtain (a possession; not now used of a material thing). archaic.

transitive. To labour after, seek after, provide; to get by effort, to obtain, acquire, or earn by labour; also (later) simply, to get, obtain. In…

transitive. To extract or gain with effort, to acquire. Cf. to pick up at phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.

Phr. (in figurative context). to lay, fasten a gripe on, upon: to stretch forth a griping hand upon. to get a gripe of: to secure a hold of. Obsolete.

transitive. To succeed in obtaining or getting possession of (something desired or needed), esp. as the result of considerable effort or mental…

transitive. To procure, acquire (an item, esp. something to eat or drink).

In plural. slang. The fingers or hands. So to get one's hooks on (also into): to get hold of.