What is "fingerhold"

Usage examples of "fingerhold".

Incredibly, he was still trying to rise, scrabbling with his left hand for a fingerhold amid the welter of buttons and controls built into the top of the enormous desk.

Denver, and, securing a strong fingerhold on the edge of the ledge, he dropped his full length into the darkness under the skylight.

She scrabbled for a fingerhold on the rock, fell back into the water - and went under.

He could see lots of stonework, but if there was as much as a fingerhold in reach of the bridge, the night hid it.

Al released his fingerhold, Mikey sank down weakly onto his haunches, gasping and sobbing, shuddering all over.

The stone the old woman had described was three down, two over, with fingerholds concealed in the mortar.

And, after three fruitless attempts, he found the correct block, the slot in the mortar, the fingerholds deep inside and behind a slanting cut.

Again, as before, it was not long before the combined friction of the line passing through these snap links made pulling it through difficult and dangerous, as the effort tended to lift him from the scant boot jams and fingerholds the face provided.

He pressed his cheek to the warm rock, clutching at fingerholds, fighting panic.

From there, she went out a window and up the side of the building for the last twenty feet, gouging fingerholds through the sour plaster to the lath.

The rough stone of the wall gave plenty of fingerholds, and ridges and knobs provided toeholds even for a man in boots.

Telek did his best to aid mem by pulling himself up on what fingerholds he could reach.