half-knot

Daybreak came slowly, seawater was lukewarm, and a half-knot counter current ran through the region, so that one actually went backward in the deadest calm.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

Sophie looked down and saw that the enormous bow of the sash at her waist had loosened to a half-knot.

Not So Innocent Laura Lee Guhrke 2002

Sophie looked down and saw that the enormous bow of the sash at her waist had loosened to a half-knot.

Not So Innocent Laura Lee Guhrke 2002

Sophie looked down and saw that the enormous bow of the sash at her waist had loosened to a half-knot.

Not So Innocent Laura Lee Guhrke 2002

Then you half-knot some half the inside yarns over that bit of wood you have there, and scrape the rest of them down over the others, and marl, parcel, and serve them together.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

I wonder if I can knock another half-knot out of her without smashing her up.

The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne Stephen King-Hall 1929

Monday night, at Marc by Marc Jacobs, Guido Palau, the creative consultant for Redken, made a half-knot, half-ponytail inspired by the mid-'90s- with a wet-looking, shiny front.

NYT > Home Page By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS 2011

a neat Yankee lass, in her second or third best dress, putting things to rights of a morning, with a snowy handkerchief over her head, its corners drawn into a half-knot under her sweet chin, and some little ruddy outposts on her cheeks, ready, on the slightest occasion, to arouse a whole army of blushes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

a lover -- it was a little bit of flax made into a sort of half-knot -- 'yes' was made by pulling the knot tight -- 'no' by leaving the matrimonial noose alone.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890