double hitch

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

He aimed at the stump of a big pine tree, An' the lariat caught with a double hitch, An' in less than a second the train an' we Were yanked off the track an' inter the ditch!

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Chicago Tribune

"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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

“It seems it’s a bunch of fellers that’s been workin’ some placer ground off back here somewheres”––and he waved a tanned hand indefinitely in a wide arc––“and some man got the double hitch on ’em with the law, provin’ that the ground was his’n, and the sheriff run ’em off!

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