Usually means: Knot for securing ropes temporarily.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. clove hitch: Merriam-Webster
  2. clove hitch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clove hitch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clove hitch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clove hitch: Vocabulary.com
  6. clove hitch: Wordnik
  7. clove-hitch, clove hitch: Wiktionary
  8. clove hitch: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Clove hitch, clove hitch: Dictionary.com
  10. Clove hitch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. clove hitch: Rhymezone
  12. clove hitch: FreeDictionary.org
  13. clove hitch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. clove hitch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. clove hitch: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clove hitch: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Clove Hitch: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CLOVE HITCH: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Clove Hitch: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (clove hitch)

noun:  (nautical) a bend formed by two half hitches in the same direction, used to make a line fast to a spar or to a larger rope; it will not slip

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