To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
To detain.
To take place, to occur.
In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
To have and keep possession of something.
Not to move; to halt; to stop.
To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
To contain or store.
To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
To win one's own service game.
To cause to wait or delay.
To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
To maintain, to consider, to opine.
To grasp or grip.
To reserve.
To bear, carry, or manage.
To keep oneself in a particular state.
To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
Power over someone or something.
A place where animals are held for safety
An act or instance of holding.
Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
A position or grip used to control the opponent.
The wager amount, the total hold.
A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
The ability to persist.
An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
Something reserved or kept.
A grasp or grip.
The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
To punish; to afflict; to smite.
To hit.
To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
To create an impression.
To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
To balance (a ledger or account).
To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
To impress, seem or appear (to).
To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
To impinge upon.
To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
To touch; to act by appulse.
To manufacture, as by stamping.
To make and ratify.
To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
To cause to ignite by friction.
To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
To set off on a walk or trip.
To score a goal.
To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
To carry out a violent or illegal action.
To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
A nibble on the bait by a fish.
In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
The strike plate of a door.
A cancellation postmark.
An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
A blow or application of physical force against something.
A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
The discovery of a source of something.
A puddler's stirrer.