Usually means: Knot used for joining ropes.
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  1. carrick bend: Merriam-Webster
  2. carrick bend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carrick bend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carrick bend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carrick bend: Vocabulary.com
  6. carrick bend: Wordnik
  7. carrick bend: Wiktionary
  8. carrick bend: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Carrick bend, carrick bend: Dictionary.com
  10. Carrick bend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. carrick bend: Rhymezone
  12. carrick-bend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. carrick bend: FreeDictionary.org
  14. carrick bend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. carrick bend: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carrick bend)

noun:  (nautical) A strong bend knot commonly used to join two lines, ropes, and hawsers when required. A reliable safe knot if tied correctly, but unsafe if tied incorrectly, which is easily done. It is a basic knot which forms part of many other knots, hitches, bends, etc.

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