The Collaborative International Dictionary
Come-along \Come"-a*long`\, n. A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.
Usage examples of "come-along".
The guard -- a middle-aged Lusian twice my weight with a flechette pistol in his holster and a come-along neural prod on his belt -- peered in, glowered at me, and went back outside to stand by the front door.
I plucked him up off the couch and caught the fist he threw at me, opened it quickly, regrasped it in an effective come-along, a hold which leaves the index and little finger free, and presses the middle two fingers against the palm of the captive hand.
They are more interested in getting the come-alongs on Rudolph's wrists but before they move him he pulls his clothes aside and shows the doctor where the slug is in his side and the doctor takes one glaum and shakes his head and says: "Gangrene," he says.
Most mercs got along, as Pritchard did, with muscle-powered come-alongs for their hold baggage.
There's a lot of good, old-fashioned dirty fighting in Tai Chi -- eye-gouging, groin punches, hold-breaks and come-alongs -- and they all fled me.