square knot

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   a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords

   Broaderknot

   Narrowerreef knot

Questions about square knot

What does square knot mean?

square knot means "a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords".

Is square knot a common word?

square 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.