to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Red carted their overnight bags to the plane, and the ground man broke off his conversation with the pilot to stuff them into the nose compartment.

Owing to absence of a duty on spirits, there would be no need to denaturise it, which would make the alcohol cheaper still.