the shaft of an arrow / the cornetfish, members of genus Fistularia (from the long and thin body shape, resembling the shaft of an arrow)

a hand / a handle, grip / a paw, foreleg / a way of acting, means / (board games) a move, play

(literally) to hold someone's hand (grasp someone's hand) / (idiomatic) to hold someone's hand (guide somebody)

pick up

to verify, to find out, to confirm

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

take

heavy / (of computers or programs) sluggish; slow / (of computer networks) congested; having poor performance