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blood knot
blood knot n. (originally) a multiple overhand knot of a kind formerly tied at the end of whips (or ropes used for whipping), to increase the pain of the blows inflicted; (now also) Fishing and Surgery a knot used to tie two ropes or lines together.In quot. 1791 in figurative context.
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blood knot1791
1791 Short Rev. Mr. Pitt's Admin. 47 No longer whipped by the blood-knots of poverty and want.
1863 London Rev. 24 Oct. 435/2 The novice proceeds by stages from tickling herself with a few strands of whipcord to goring her shoulders with hempen thongs full of blood knots.
1873 H. S. Thomas Rod in India xiii. 165 Tie a simple whip knot or common knot in it, such as is commonly tied at the end of a whip; a single knot, not a blood knot.
1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady iii. viii. 233 Blood-knots in the whip-lash.
1935 E. Taverner & J. Moore Angler's Week-end Bk. 189 Under his critical eye, I joined the two lines with a blood knot. ‘I guessed you were a fisherman,’ he said.
1990 T. Griggs Quickening i. 15 One nurse there, her old man a sailor, used to tie him up in blood knots and monkey's fists, and Grampy still got out of them.
2005 K. M. Baumgarten & R. W. Wright Arthroscopic Knot Tying 72 The blood knot is a popular fishing knot that has been adapted to be used in laparoscopic surgery.
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