The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Slippery Hitch

Sea Terms

A hitch made by a landsman, or novice on board ship, which will not hold. Also a loop or half-bow knot tied in a rope after passing it around or through something which will not jamb, and which will untie by pulling the hanging end. (See engraving.)

Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
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