double hitch
Americannoun
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Has anyone tried to get him to change that double hitch swing?
From Chicago Tribune • May 5, 2011
Arethusa took a double hitch on her larynx, and tried again.
From The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary by Warner, Anne
A snort of terror and a bound in the air gave Tom the chance to add the double hitch.
From Wild Animals I Have Known by Seton, Ernest Thompson
But the orioles in question not only tied knots; they tied them with a "reversed double hitch, the kind that a man uses in cinching his saddle"!
From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John
At each end the spiral wind is doubled two turns, the second lying over the first and developing a frictional resistance similar to that of a double hitch of a rope around a post.
From The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170 by Campbell, J. L.
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