ROLLING HITCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rolling hitch mean? 

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

1. a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROLLING HITCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

hitch (a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rolling hitch"):

magnus hitch (a rolling hitch similar to a clove hitch)

 Context examples 

Calling to Maud to cease lowering, I went on deck and made the watch-tackle fast to the mast with a rolling hitch.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)