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nodome

nodome noun: a crossing hitch, as used in Japanese rope bondage.

Noun

nodome (plural nodome or nodomes)

  1. A crossing hitch, as used in Japanese rope bondage.
    • And then I'm going to go around her chest once and make a nodome.2022, Marika Roux, Frictions Lexicon, Shibari Study
    • If you are going straight up, use a Crossing Hitch (a.k.a. "Munter Hitch" or "Nodome").2023, Lazarus Redmayne, Kajira Blue, “Building Blocks: Junctions”, in Foundations of Rope Bondage, →ISBN, page 270

Forms of nodome

pluralnodome
pluralnodomes

Origin of nodome

Borrowed from Japanese の止め (“の-shaped stop”).

Questions about nodome

What does nodome mean?
Nodome means a crossing hitch, as used in Japanese rope bondage.
What part of speech is nodome?
Nodome is a noun.
What is the plural of nodome?
The plural of nodome is nodome.

Words near nodome in the dictionary

  1. Nodine
  2. Nodines
  3. NODIS
  4. NODL
  5. nodofascicular
  6. nodome
  7. Nodons
  8. nodopathies
  9. nodopathy
  10. nodosarine
  11. nodosarines

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