rolling hitch

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   a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope

   Broaderhitch

   Narrowermagnus hitch

Questions about rolling hitch

What does rolling hitch mean?

rolling hitch means "a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope".

Is rolling hitch a common word?

rolling 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.