stopper knot

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   a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole

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Questions about stopper knot

What does stopper knot mean?

stopper knot means "a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole".

Is stopper knot a common word?

stopper 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.