An alternative approach is not to imitate nature, but to harness it-by hitching a ride with a bacterium.
I was spending the summer working in a village in mid-Wales and, without my own car, hitching was the only option.
If this sounds a bit too risky (in terms of time and personal safety), then go online for some formalised hitching, by using schemes such as LiftShare and CarShare.
The farmer yoked the oxen before hitching them to the wagon.
After a cup of tea and a chat he went on his way while I wandered across the forecourt scanning for a possible spot to start hitching.
What seems certain, judging from the state of its PAWS, is that it walked home by road and pavement, rather than somehow hitching a lift or going cross-country.
They did not so much as greet the leader, but joined the one, sniffling and hitching and scraping their feet.
Tie to secure objects such as a telephone pole (without a supporting "guy" wire), wall, hitching post, tree, or a trailer that is secured by attachment to a vehicle.
It was an overcast afternoon and I was hitching just outside Gloucester.
I used to put the men who gave me a lift into two categories; there were the protective fatherly types who warned me against hitching, and leering chancers who made dirty jokes.
Mechanism of spinning entangling is analyzed and described regarding the main factors such as static absorption, mechanical hitching, and oily and wet sticking.
He sat down on a bench, hitching up his trousers, carefully, as if afraid of destroying a knife-edged crease.
She was a famous author on the rise. Greenspan was a master of hitching his wagon to any horse on the move.
I was hitching a ride to arrive at a mountain peak by dawn.
"OK, I'll just carry on hitching," I said, secretly relieved.
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