noun: (obsolete) A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
noun: (obsolete) A contract, agreement, covenant; specifically betrothal, espousal.
verb: (transitive) To pledge; to bind.
verb: (transitive, Scotland, archaic or historical except Wicca) To betroth by joining hands, in order to allow for cohabitation before the celebration of marriage; to marry provisionally.
adjective: (obsolete) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
