slipknot
noun
slip knot
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a variation of
slipknot.
Example Sentences
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Standing around a table in the garden, we washed, trimmed and peeled the fruit, tied each stem in a slip knot, then dipped the persimmons in boiling water for just a couple of seconds.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
That’s what it brought to mind to me, except it’s not a slip knot.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2020
To make a hat, Maggie taught me to cast on with the same slip knot the crew used to secure the fenders.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2017
It is simply a rope, thirty feet long, made of tightly twisted leather, with a slip knot at the end, which passes through an iron ring.
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
Le Bris gave the jerk of the rope that should have unfastened the slip knot, but a concealed nail on the cart caught the rope, so that it failed to run.
From A History of Aeronautics by Evelyn Charles Vivian
