clove hitch

1. 1.

   a knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar

   Broaderknot

Questions about clove hitch

What does clove hitch mean?

clove hitch means "a knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar".

Is clove hitch a common word?

clove hitch 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.