Word Meanings - GRASPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Seizing; embracing; catching.

• Catchweed
  See Cleavers.
• Catchweight
  Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.
• Catchword
  Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
• Catchwork
  A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
• CATCHBASIN
  A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.
• CATCHCROP
  Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch"- crop`ping, n. Radishes . . . are often grown as a catch crop with other vegetables. L. H. Bailey.
• Catchable
  Capable of being caught.
• CATCHMEADOW
  meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.
• Catch-basin
  A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.
• Embracing
  of Embrace
• CATCHTITLE
  A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.

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