double hitch

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Chicago Tribune • May 5, 2011

We were able, however, to rig our team with the double hitch that is so much more economical of power than the tandem hitch, whenever the width of the trail permits it.

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson

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 Burroughs, John

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

Arethusa took a double hitch on her larynx, and tried again.

From The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary by Warner, Anne