running knot

American  

noun

1. a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose running noose that tightens as the rope is pulled.

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Etymology

Origin of running knot

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

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running knot

The running knot had pulled tight and was buried in the fur behind his ear.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Then Harvey proceeded to tie a running knot, through which he passed the other free end of rope.

From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith

If I possessed an expedient for extricating her from a dilemma, without compromising my own neck to the extent of a single running knot, what would you say to it?

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood

Taking the light Manilla painter, he proceeded to form a large loop, and grasping it near the running knot, laid half a dozen turns across his hand.

From Adrift in the Ice-Fields by Charles W. Hall

Noose, nōōs, or nōōz, n. a running knot which ties the firmer the closer it is drawn: a snare or knot generally.—v.t. to tie or catch in a noose.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various