Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A knot made with a loop so that it slips easily along the rope or cord around which it is tied.
- noun A knot made so that it can readily be untied by pulling one free end.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A knot which can be easily slipped or undone by pulling the loose end of the last loop made; a bow-knot.
- noun Same as
running knot (which see, underrunning ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
slip knot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made
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Examples
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A slipknot is the foundation stitch of a crocheted chain.
A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002
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It begins by stating that all cast ons must begin with a slipknot, which is not true.
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And write back with the resalts. and also so there was one "slipknot" song (from there new albem, i forget what song) but it sounded like it had some sort of messeage at the end, cuz even the instaments of the band sounded like it was backwards.
jeffmilner.com 2008
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And write back with the resalts. and also so there was one "slipknot" song (from there new albem, i forget what song) but it sounded like it had some sort of messeage at the end, cuz even the instaments of the band sounded like it was backwards.
jeffmilner.com 2008
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And write back with the resalts. and also so there was one "slipknot" song (from there new albem, i forget what song) but it sounded like it had some sort of messeage at the end, cuz even the instaments of the band sounded like it was backwards.
jeffmilner.com 2008
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And write back with the resalts. and also so there was one "slipknot" song (from there new albem, i forget what song) but it sounded like it had some sort of messeage at the end, cuz even the instaments of the band sounded like it was backwards.
jeffmilner.com 2008
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And write back with the resalts. and also so there was one "slipknot" song (from there new albem, i forget what song) but it sounded like it had some sort of messeage at the end, cuz even the instaments of the band sounded like it was backwards.
jeffmilner.com 2008
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And write back with the resalts. and also so there was one "slipknot" song (from there new albem, i forget what song) but it sounded like it had some sort of messeage at the end, cuz even the instaments of the band sounded like it was backwards.
jeffmilner.com 2008
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And write back with the resalts. and also so there was one "slipknot" song (from there new albem, i forget what song) but it sounded like it had some sort of messeage at the end, cuz even the instaments of the band sounded like it was backwards.
jeffmilner.com 2008
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And write back with the resalts. and also so there was one "slipknot" song (from there new albem, i forget what song) but it sounded like it had some sort of messeage at the end, cuz even the instaments of the band sounded like it was backwards.
jeffmilner.com 2008
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