clove hitch
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.
Origin of clove hitch
1- Also called builder's knot.
Words Nearby clove hitch
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How to use clove hitch in a sentence
A kind of double clove-hitch is generally used, but the simple one suffices, and is more easily recollected.
The Art of Travel | Francis GaltonTake this silk rope, Gomez, and clove-hitch it well up the trunk.
Captain Brand of the "Centipede" | H. A. (Henry Augustus) WiseIn 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.
The Child's Rainy Day Book | Mary WhiteA clove hitch is this same knot made around a spar or other article, instead of on its own standing part.
Practical Boat-Sailing | Douglas FrazarTo the middle of this bail Jim tied the thirty-foot painter with a clove hitch.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman | Albert Walter Tolman
British Dictionary definitions for clove hitch
a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
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