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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A knot in which one rope or piece of yarn is made fast to the bight of another.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Nautical a bend very commonly used for fastening two ropes together.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A type of knot that can be used to join two ropes of different diameters.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)

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