Home › Words › F › fingerholdfingerholdfingerhold means A grip with the fingers.EtymologyFrom finger + hold.nounA grip with the fingers.e.g.“He'd jump up, get a fingerhold, and then dirt would give way and he'd slip back down. Jump up, get a fingerhold, slip back down.” — 2012, Mary Hamilton, Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).