surgeon's knot

1. 1.

   any of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures

   Broaderknot

Questions about surgeon's knot

What does surgeon's knot mean?

surgeon's knot means "any of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures".

Is surgeon's knot a common word?

surgeon's 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.