plural of taut-line hitch

plural of double becket hitch

plural of figure-eight hitch

(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.

(colloquial, intransitive) To get married, to wed.

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