single knot

American  

noun

1. overhand knot.

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Etymology

Origin of single knot

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

This can happen in multiple parts of a single knot, and the more rope strands moving in opposite directions, the stronger the knot will be.

From Salon

Panting and gasping, Harry slowed down, skirting the Willow’s swiping branches, peering through the darkness toward its thick trunk, trying to see the single knot in the bark of the old tree that would paralyze it.

From Literature

Hence came reaction, and recourse to the Scriptures as sole guide to secular as well as sacred knowledge; recourse to a method which, as Hallam says, “had not untied a single knot, or added one unequivocal truth to the domain of philosophy.”

From Project Gutenberg

Then count the number of hairs for a strand, and pull it out from the tips, dip it in water and draw it between the thumb and finger to make it lie smoothly; then tie a solid, single knot at one end, the same as you would with a sewing thread.

From Project Gutenberg

I’ve been trying for the last ten minutes to loosen these cords, but I can’t slip a single knot.

From Project Gutenberg