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

Word History and Origins

Origin of clove hitch¹

First recorded in 1760–70; clove ³

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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

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

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