fisherman's bend

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   a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring

   Broaderknot

Questions about fisherman's bend

What does fisherman's bend mean?

fisherman's bend means "a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring".

Is fisherman's bend a common word?

fisherman's 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.