transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈtō-ˌhōld ]
noun
Date: 1880
1.
a. : a hold or place of support for the toes (as in climbing)
b.
(1) : a means of progressing (as in surmounting barriers)
(2) : a slight footing
used his money to get a toehold , then a foothold, then a near stranglehold on the political economy — R. W. Armstrong
2. : an illegal wrestling hold in which the aggressor bends or twists the other wrestler's foot