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clove hitch

noun

  1. a knot or hitch for fastening a rope to a spar or larger rope, consisting of two half hitches made in opposite directions, the two parts of the rope emerging also in opposite directions.


clove hitch

noun

  1. a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of clove hitch1

First recorded in 1760–70; clove 3
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Example Sentences

A kind of double clove-hitch is generally used, but the simple one suffices, and is more easily recollected.

Take this silk rope, Gomez, and clove-hitch it well up the trunk.

In making nets this clove hitch is used to attach the first row of meshes to the top line or head rope, as it is called.

A clove hitch is this same knot made around a spar or other article, instead of on its own standing part.

To the middle of this bail Jim tied the thirty-foot painter with a clove hitch.

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