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single knot

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Word History and Origins

Origin of single knot1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

This can happen in multiple parts of a single knot, and the more rope strands moving in opposite directions, the stronger the knot will be.

From Salon

“I never wanted her to get down to a single knot. Freeing her is not an option.”

“As a hen, most details escaped me. When I urged you to take me to Muriel, I assumed she still had two knots remaining. Only when I looked up and observed the single knot did I begin to fathom the actual predicament. By then it was too late. Incidentally, how did you end up as a walrus?”

“This trifle? Loosing a single knot will mend it.”

Panting and gasping, Harry slowed down, skirting the Willow’s swiping branches, peering through the darkness toward its thick trunk, trying to see the single knot in the bark of the old tree that would paralyze it.

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