wall knot
English
Noun
wall knot (plural wall knots)
- A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first.
Translations
type of knot
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wall knot under wall in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)