blood 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

   Synonymsbarrel knot

   Broaderknot

Questions about blood knot

What does blood knot mean?

blood 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 blood knot?

Close synonyms include barrel 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 blood knot a common word?

blood 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.