fisherman's bend

American  

noun

1. a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.

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fisherman's bend British  

noun

1. a knot used to fasten a rope to an anchor, ring, or spar

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Etymology

Origin of fisherman's bend

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Jean put the rope about her waist, fixing it with the fisherman's bend, and tied one end about his own, using the overhand knot, while his brother tied on behind.

From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Now! don’t you want to learn how to tie another knot, the fisherman’s bend?

From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel

Before their departure he had learned how to tie three knots, square or reef, bowline and the fisherman’s bend.

From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel

"Ay! ay!" and he tied her a lover's knot as imperturbably as he had the reef knot, bowling-knot, fisherman's bend, etc.

From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Reade, Charles

“I can tie all 65 kinds of knots,—the Becket hitch, and the bowline, and the false reef and the fisherman’s bend, and the sheep-shank and the timber hitch——” “Whoa!” the man laughed.

From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard