clove hitch in English

noun
1
a knot by which a rope is secured by passing it twice around a spar or another rope that it crosses at right angles in such a way that both ends pass under the loop of rope at the front.
It was what farmers call two half hitches, and sailors, a clove hitch …

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1. Would you think it likely, now, that your squire would prove a liberal-minded one in case of help - him being in a clove hitch, as you remark?

2. Preferred primary anchor into a Belay is a clove hitch or bite8 on the powerpoint - I prefer a clove for adjustability, sometimes using a purcell prusik as a second method to adjust my attitude to the anchor.

3. For this I Abseiled in from the top of the the crag, located the bag (by this point a little soaked as it was wedged in a gully behind a boulder), prussiked back out, then built a 3:1 'z' pulley system to haul it up, before scrambling back out on a rolling clove hitch