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Definition of Slipknots
1. slipknot [n] - See also: slipknot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipknots
Literary usage of Slipknots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"... and many houses were closed by means of a rattan, carried round outside the
fence of the compound, whilst slipknots of jungle-grass (lalang) were hung ..."
2. A Source Book of Greek History by Fred Morrow Fling (1907)
"Then, fastening slipknots to the stones, they dragged them out of the sea from
the mole; and having raised them aloft with cranes, they discharged them into ..."
3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... when the whole design is drawn, the drawer, to re- begin the design afresh,
has nothing to do but to raise the little strings,twith slipknots, ..."
4. Letters from an Oregon Ranch by Louise G. Stephens, Katharine, Frank Hazenplug, A.C. McClurg & Company, University Press (Cambridge, Mass.) (1905)
"As she discoursed enthusiastically of ropes, thongs, slipknots, and nooses, I
remembered that only a few minutes before in our talk she had quoted from ..."
5. A Russian Province of the North by Aleksandr Platonovich Engelhardt, Henry Cooke (1899)
"... which prohibits the catching of birds by spring-traps, slipknots, nooses and
snares in general, has practically died out altogether, ..."
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