clovehitch

clovehitch
clove hitch © School Division, Houghton Mifflin Company n.
A knot used to secure a line to a spar, post, or other object, consisting of two half hitches made in opposite directions.
  [Middle English clove, split, past participle of cleven, to split. See cleave1.]

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