noun
a knot or hitch made by forming a bight and passing the end of the rope around the standing part and through the bight.
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Origin of half hitch
First recorded in 1760–70
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How to use half hitch in a sentence
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
Murders in the City of Angels have fallen by about half in the last 10 years: no small feat for such a big city.
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.
The Vine is a universal favorite, and rarely out of view; while it often seems to cover half the ground in sight.
British Dictionary definitions for half hitch
noun
a knot made by passing the end of a piece of rope around itself and through the loop thus made
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