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Definition of Hitcher
1. one that hitches [n -S] - See also: hitches
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hitcher
Literary usage of Hitcher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"1 would I might have once scene that chance. t-hitcher. A sort of boat-hook.
HO, *. Originally a call, from the interjection ho ! afterward rather like a ..."
2. Irrigation Farming: A Handbook for the Proper Application of Water in the by Lucius Merle Wilcox (1902)
"A Tandem hitcher.—A useful device for working two horses tandem in a ditch is
shown in Fig. 102. It is made by attaching two pulleys for inch rope to ..."
3. The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States: With an by William Rattle Plum (1882)
"6, which has its inside wire, h, connected with the L hitcher, e, ... r, is a
wire which connects the bell switch with L hitcher, e, over the word " Bell. ..."
4. Journal by Detroit (Mich.). City Council, World Energy Council, South Carolina Colony Council (1876)
"A. Brush, relative to street opening matters 163 JH Henry, against re-paving
Jefferson avenue 163 Mrs. IM Smit, for ornamental " hitcher" . ..."
5. Alone in the Wilderness by Joseph Knowles (1913)
"For this particular hitcher a limb is chosen with its branches, which are trimmed
... Thus the ring of the hitcher can go down over these small projections, ..."
6. Our River [the Thames] by George Dunlop Leslie (1881)
"I have seen young men pulled overboard by the hitcher in locks before now, and
also the hitcher pulled out of the grasp of its holder ; against the stream a ..."
7. Fishes and Fishing: Artificial Breeding of Fish, Anatomy of Their Senses by William Wright (1858)
"I stood up in the bow of the skiff, struck the point of the hitcher into the bay
piece, gave a jump, and off glided the boat, but I was obliged to leave my ..."
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