loop knot

American  

noun

1. a knot made by doubling over a line at its end and tying both thicknesses into a square knot in such a way as to leave a loop.

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loop knot British  

noun

1. a knot that leaves a loop extending from it

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Etymology

Origin of loop knot

First recorded in 1785–95

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loop knot

The no-slip mono loop knot is also very simple and useful when a free-swinging connection is needed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Attach it to your line with a loop knot or a plain snap to give the Rap a pendulum action that keeps on swinging even after you stop jigging.

From Time Magazine Archive

Using a MirrOlure loop knot, Clymer ties on either a Mann's Stretch 25+ or Rapala CD MAG-18 big-lipped diving plug rigged with twin treble hooks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every night she would set out the same kind of snare, a simple loop knot that someone had taught her long ago.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

If he left loose a long enough end, with a loop knot, he could fasten the rope from the boat to the line of sheets, and the boat would be made fast.

From The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis