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ahold (also aholt) noun Hold. [probably a indefinite article + hold "grasp"; OED labels this usage "colloquial or dialect" in Britain]

1861 Patton CW Letters (May 26) we expect to make the yankeys fly if we get a holt of them. 1940 Haun Hawk’s Done 57 I took a-hold of his neck and watched his foot. 1962 Dykeman Tall Woman 23 Our troops got to keep a-holt of it till the Rebs surrender, ma'am. 1964 Stokely Harvest 53 [I w]isht I could find some way to git a-holt of some money. 1974 Fink Bits Mt Speech 1 I took aholt of him. 1998 Dante OHP-69 I tried to get ahold of them down there at Erwin and I couldn’t get ahold of L. J.