What is "half-hitch"

Usage examples of "half-hitch".

The best mode of securing the buoy-rope to the gun is to form a clinch or splice an eye in the end which goes over the cascabel, and take a half-hitch with the bight around the chase of the gun, and stop it with spun-yarn.

I took a turn around a kevel and threw a couple of quick half-hitches.

Finch had included a subliminal tape on half-hitches and sheepshanks, and that there were some way to lock the boat.

Tie the shirttails in a loose easy-to-slip midriff-baring half-hitch under her breasts.

It seemed firm enough but, for good measure, he gave it another few heavy blows with the hammer, undid the double bowline round his legs and secured the end of the rope to the piton with a round turn and two half-hitches, hauling on the rope until the knot locked tight.

Bunching my poles I threw a half-hitch on one end and a timber hitch on the other and started the team back along the slope.