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Blackwall hitches

Blackwall hitches is the plural of Blackwall hitch.

Meaning of Blackwall hitch

Noun

Blackwall hitch (plural Blackwall hitches)

  1. 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.

Questions about Blackwall hitches

What is Blackwall hitches the plural of?
Blackwall hitches is the plural of Blackwall hitch.

Words near Blackwall hitches in the dictionary

  1. blackulas
  2. Blackville
  3. blackvoice
  4. blackwall
  5. Blackwall hitch
  6. Blackwall hitches
  7. blackwalls
  8. blackware
  9. blackwares
  10. Blackwarry
  11. blackwash

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