(knots) A knot or hitch made by passing the end of the rope once around the standing part or other rope.

A bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage. / A horizontal bar to which horses are tethered.

A hitch used to draw a trailer with a car or a traction engine.

A hitch knot used to attach a rope to an object, comprising a pair of half hitches tied in opposing directions. / Any hitch or bend which slips because it is wrongly tied.

A post to which a horse (or other animal) may be tethered to prevent it from straying.

(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

A category of knot tied around another rope, which allows the hitch to be moved up and down the other rope, but which remains stationary when a load is placed on it.

A simple type of hitch knot, most often used in boating, to tie a smaller line to a larger line.

(nautical) A means of fastening a rope to a hook: a turn of the rope, either the end or the middle, around the hook, having the part the strain is on riding over the loose part, with the bight well up on the back of the hook.

plural of Blackwall hitch