an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit | the act of grasping |
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 | a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes |
the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it |
a loud and disturbing noise | a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place |
| 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) |