make a hitch

Example Sentences

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You go outside and make a hitch with that rope you saw just forward of the middle of the projectile.

From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth

He yelled for me to make a hitch somewhere.

From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane

Here, lay hold of the rope and make a hitch round that killick.

From The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap by Wood, Stanley L.

Sam had gotten the rope about the neck of the diver but was too much exhausted to make a hitch.

From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee