handhold
hand hohld
- n an appendage to hold onto
- There will be no gravitation, of course, so some of the men will be upside down, walking on the ceiling, like flies, with suction cups on their feet or brachiating from handhold .
- But this was a tenuous handhold on an area which has traditionally been the scene of Anglo-French imperial rivalry.
- It is not one of Bolao's most successful digressions, but it is an excellent metaphor for 2666 itself: "Images with no handhold," the professor says of those ruined pages, "images .