double hitch

American  

noun

1. a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.

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double hitch

Has anyone tried to get him to change that double hitch swing?

From Chicago Tribune ● May 5, 2011

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 J. L. Campbell

"Better put the 'mechanic' on him," said Harry, and presently young Roy was beside me on the cradle, securing me to the drop-lines with a double hitch.

From Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

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 John Burroughs

A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both parts of the other, and under its own part.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

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