Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HITCH, v.i. [Ar. حَاكَ haika, to hitch along; W. hecian, to halt, hop, or limp, or hictaw, to snap, to catch suddenly. Both may be of one family.]

1. To move by jerks, or with stops; as, in colloquial language, to hitch along. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time / Slides in a verse, or hitches in a rhyme. Pope.
2. To become entangled; to be caught or hooked. South.
3. To hit the legs together in going, as horses. [Not used in the United States.]
4. To hop; to spring on one leg. [Local.] Grose.
5. To move or walk. Grose.