blood knot
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Tweet n. 1. An overhand knot with multiple wraps tied in the thongs of a whip. 2. A knot used to join two lines, especially in fly fishing to attach a leader to the main line, tied by coiling either end around the opposite line and passing the ends between the two lines where the coils meet. [From the fact that such knots in whips draw blood.] |
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