come-along , also: cumalong

He reached out and grabbed the guy's right wrist with a come-along hold.

He was using a come-along to ease the process.

At this point, I applied a bent-wrist come-along to her right hand and arm.

Roger wasn't looking up, was just pulling on the come-along's crank with all his strength.

The landing party walked down some kind of central avenue, five suited figures and one come-along walking machine.

The other was retrieving his come-along stick from where it had skittered to a stop.

Ivan, now that his target was no longer moving, took over and achieved a creditable come-along hold.

He flipped the come-along tab and heard Phyllis's voice.

Ye'll play come-along and I'll show ye an anvil pose.

The police used what they called "come-along" holds to apply pressure to the neck and jaw of the protester.

A second rope, fastened to the grapnel, was tied to the come-along's other end.

The sergeant's first kick sent the enormous goon's come-along stick flying.

The officer pulled out his come-along stick.

The windows were like hundreds of slitted eyes looking down on the party of five and their come-along walker.

A come-along is canvas strap with a ratchet mechanism.

They had been designed so that one person could do it, using a motor-assisted "come-along" anchored to each tightening point.

One end was tied fast to the tree, the other secured to one end of the come-along.

Roger pulled on the rope in the birch trees with one hand, using the other to crank the come-along and take up some slack.

Ethan skittishly followed her come-along gesture, bringing up the float pallet.

The Ranchero had a come-along and they had the Bronco right side up in ten minutes.

To tighten chain-link fencing, use a hand-operated winch called a come-along.

A hoist–puller (come-along) or a scissor jack can be used to extract stuck increment borers from trees.

There were tractors and come-along plows.

She dodged a counter-grav come-along towing a long train of floating freight canisters.

Remove the come-along.