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toe-hold
n. (alternative form of toehold English)
Usage examples of "toe-hold".
Then he reached the overhang, and was hanging out backwards reaching for every finger and toe-hold, dragging himself round by the strength of his arms.
A stupid, irrational thought for a modern man, a space-traveller come to that, but in my circumstances it got a toe-hold in my mind.