the act of grasping | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games |
the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience |
a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | a loud and disturbing noise |
an intellectual hold or understanding | |
worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | |
the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | |