onhold

verb2

1. •
   (dialect, rare) To hold on (to).

   • She leaped and trembled; still onheld his gripe, And gnawed her waning life. — 1882
2. •
   (dialect, rare) To hold on.

   • Resolved, That the Minutes of the Meeting of the Secondary Committee onheld 8 July, 1918, be and they are hereby confirmed. — 1919