rolling hitch
a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
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How to use rolling hitch in a sentence
Calling to Maud to cease lowering, I went on deck and made the watch-tackle fast to the mast with a rolling hitch.
The Sea-Wolf | Jack Londonrolling hitch: For shifting the fall from one end of a windlass to the other.
The Gunner's Examiner | Harold E. Cloke
British Dictionary definitions for rolling hitch
a knot used for fastening one rope to another or to a spar, being easily released but jamming when the rope is pulled
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