CLOVE HITCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clove hitch mean? 

• CLOVE HITCH (noun)
  The noun CLOVE HITCH has 1 sense:

1. a knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar

  Familiarity information: CLOVE HITCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOVE HITCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

knot (any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object)

 Context examples 

“Yes,” said one, “that's Flint, sure enough. J. F., and a score below, with a clove hitch to it; so he done ever.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Would you think it likely, now, that your squire would prove a liberal-minded one in case of help—him being in a clove hitch, as you remark?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You're a good lad, Jim, he said; and you're all in a clove hitch, ain't you?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)