crown knot
chiefly Nautical
noun
A knot made tying the separate strands of an unlaid rope, used either as a temporary means of preventing the end of a rope from unlaying or as the first stage of making a back splice.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Boyer's Dictionnaire Royal.
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