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

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

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

A snort of terror and a bound in the air gave Tom the chance to add the double hitch.

From Wild Animals I Have Known by Seton, Ernest Thompson

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 Campbell, J. L.