granny knot

1. 1.

   a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure

   Synonymsgranny

   Broaderreef knot

Questions about granny knot

What does granny knot mean?

granny knot means "a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure".

What is another word for granny knot?

Close synonyms include granny. 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 granny knot a common word?

granny 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.