half-hitches

I played the sailor and the man, fending off the skiff so that it would not mar the yacht's white paint, dropping the skiff astern on a long painter, and making the painter fast with two nonchalant half-hitches.

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The prickles having been sliced off with a knife or the finger nails, two distinct half-hitches are made in reverse order.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Chloe threw three lightning half-hitches around the throat of the bag, the extra one for luck, snapped a bowline on the end for a handle.

Rescue Ferrets at Sea Richard Bach 2002

I tied a very lumpish-looking knot, wishing Finch had included a subliminal tape on half-hitches and sheepshanks, and that there were some way to lock the boat.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

The knot was a bowline with above it two half-hitches, an odd combination.

The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

The more people I who had handled the rope and the knot, the more difficult it would be to discover who had first tied the bowline and made doubly sure with the two half-hitches.

The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

It seemed firm enough but, for good measure, he gave it another few heavy blows with the hammer, undid the double bowline round his legs and secured the end of the rope to the piton with a round turn and two half-hitches, hauling on the rope until the knot locked tight.

Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967

I got a small line, took two half-hitches around his arm, and then made fast to the boat.

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

And I tell ye when I make two half-hitches, they hold; ask captain there, if I can't make hitches as will hold.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

In Fig. 59 the half-hitches (§ 110) are not shown.

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