carrick bend

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   a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers

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Questions about carrick bend

What does carrick bend mean?

carrick bend means "a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers".

Is carrick bend a common word?

carrick bend 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.