carrick bend
- noun
- Specialized
:
nudo carrick
- To secure the towline, the crew tied a carrick bend between the two ropes.
Examples
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The carrick bend is often used by sailors when they need to join two heavy hawsers.
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He practiced tying a perfect carrick bend for his seamanship exam.
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The sailor tied a carrick bend to join the two ropes.
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Have you ever used a carrick bend before?
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The carrick bend is a reliable way to connect two thick ropes on a ship.
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Sailors often use a carrick bend to securely join heavy hawsers during towing.
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For safety, the crew made sure to tie a carrick bend when securing the anchors.
Synonyms
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6.1
A way of tying two fishing lines together so they hold well
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8.6
A knot people who fish use to join two lines by wrapping the ends together
A strong knot for joining the ends of two thick ropes
A strong knot for joining two fishing lines by wrapping their ends
A way of joining two ropes used as a symbol of love
A knot used to join the ends of two ropes so they stay together
How Secure
- Specialized
- Specialized
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6.1
- Jargon
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8.4
- Specialized
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8.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
carrick + bend
The element 'carrick' is not a transparent lexical item for most learners and carries no predictable meaning, while 'bend' in this phrase uses a specialized nautical sense ('a type of knot') that a B1 learner who only knows 'bend' as 'curve' would not infer. Because the overall sense is jargon-specific and not compositionally derivable from the known common meanings of the parts, it is opaque to learners.
Etymology
Carrick bend may come from a place called Carrick, where sailors often used this knot to join heavy ropes. The word bend here means 'knot that joins two ropes', so the name is a simple picture of a knot used to join ropes.