barrel knot

1. 1.

   a knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times

   Synonymsblood knot

   Broaderknot

Questions about barrel knot

What does barrel knot mean?

barrel knot means "a knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times".

What is another word for barrel knot?

Close synonyms include blood knot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barrel knot a common word?

barrel knot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.