Usually means: Knot used for securing loads.
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  1. stevedore knot: Merriam-Webster
  2. stevedore knot: Dictionary.com
  3. Stevedore knot (mathematics), Stevedore knot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. stevedore knot, Stevedore knot: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Stevedore knot)

noun:  The stevedore knot is a stopper knot, often tied near the end of a rope.
noun:  In knot theory, the stevedore knot is one of three prime knots with crossing number six, the others being the 62 knot and the 63 knot.


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