Word Meanings - SHEEPSHANK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.

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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• TEMPORARILY
  In a temporary manner; for a time.
• HITCH
  hotch, to move by jerks, also Prov. G. hiksen, G. hinken, to limp, 1. To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. South. 2. To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks,
• SHORTENING
  That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
• SHORTEN
  1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. 2. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract;
• SHORTENER
  One who, or that which, shortens.
• HITCHEL
  See HATCHEL
• CHITCHAT
  Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
• EXTEMPORARILY
  Extemporaneously.
• FORESHORTENING
  Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
• UNHITCH
  To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.
• FORESHORTEN
  To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the