The Collaborative International Dictionary
cuckold's neck
Cuckold's knot \Cuck"old's knot`\ (k?k"?ldz n?t`). (Naut.)
A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the
two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; --
called also cuckold's neck.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Usage examples of "cuckold's neck".
He had but a short night of it again, since just before dawn an unknown very passionate voice not six inches from the cuddy scuttle cried 'Don't you know how to seize a cuckold's neck, you God-damned lubber?