ROLLING HITCH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rolling hitch" is a kind of...):

hitch (a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rolling hitch"):

magnus hitch (a rolling hitch similar to a clove hitch)

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