Ahold

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Hold; grip: "I knew I could make it all right if I got . . . back to the hotel and got ahold of that bottle of brandy” ( Jimmy Breslin).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • ad. To bring a ship to lie as near to the windward as it can to get out to sea.
  • n. A hold, grip, grasp.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • ad. Near the wind.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Near the wind, so as to hold or keep to it: as, to lay a ship a-hold.
  • Word Usage
    "But sometimes these things get dropped and picked up again, when the feds get ahold of some new information."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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