holde

Noun

hold (plural holds)

1. A grasp or grip.
   • Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
2. An act or instance of holding.
   • Can I have a hold of the baby?
3. A place where animals are held for safety
4. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
   • Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.
5. Something reserved or kept.
   • We have a hold here for you.
6. Power over someone or something.
   • The fad has gained a sure hold on every teenager.

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