Jumping ashore with the bow line, he wrapped a clove hitch round the trunk of a palm.
By day's end, I can steer into a lock without a bump, negotiate bends and oncoming boats and tie a "clove hitch" knot.
Each dahlia has a single bamboo cane with some string fixed round it attached with a clove hitch.
At the exhibition you can play with pirate flags, tie reef knots and clove hitch knots, and learn about wicked pirates.
Third, many admirable local councillors, with the best will in the world, just do not know port from starboard or a bowline from a clove hitch.
A clove hitch is two successive half-hitches around an object.
Now, tuck the working end under the standing part of the original clove hitch.
It is one of the four basic maritime knots (the other three are figure-eight knot, reef knot and clove hitch).
