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Definition of Clove hitch
1. Noun. A knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar.
Definition of Clove hitch
1. Noun. (nautical) a bend formed by two half hitches in opposite directions, used to make a line fast to a spar or to a larger rope; it will not slip ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Clove Hitch
Literary usage of Clove hitch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pye's Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery by Walter Pye (1893)
"... the manoeuvres until his fingers acquire a perfect automatic skill, so that
he never has to think of their individual movements. The The clove-hitch, ..."
2. The Science and art of surgery by John Eric Erichsen (1854)
"... by means of a bandage or jack- towel fixed upon the part, with a clove-hitch
knot applied in the way represented in the annexed cut (Fii:. 92). ..."
3. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"... I believe, except in old luxation of the head of the bone.] believe, ei Fia.
500. Extension, adduction and rotation outwards. FIG. \ clove hitch. ..."
4. Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions: Information on by Henry Lee Scott (1861)
"A kind of double clove- hitch is generally used, but the simple one suffices,
... A double clove-hitch is firmer than a single one ; that is, ..."
5. Handbook for Rangers & Woodsmen by Jay Laird Burgess Taylor (1916)
"This consists of a clove hitch with the ends passed under a turn taken between
... This consists merely of a clove hitch taken about the long end of a line. ..."
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