hither

(hitH’ér), v.i. To come hither. [Rare.] Magnus hitch (naut.), a peculiar way of fastening a rope e hither and thither, to go back and forth; travel to a spar, consisting in a round turn about the spar, with about. ahalf-hitch on the standing part.— Rolling hitch (naut.), An old black trunk —a companion to our hithering and a hitch made by pa ing the end of a rope twice round another rope or a spar in such a way that the hauling thither ing for seven long years. The New Mirror (New York), III. 96, part will jam these two turns, and then securing the end by a half-hitch. Fraser applied to me to write a word about him [Edward hitch cock,.