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Words related to noose

noose
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  • slipnoose

    a noose with a knot that slides along the rope, thus forming a noose that tightens as the rope is pulled.

  • halter

    Archaic. lameness; a limp.

  • lasso

    a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.

  • running knot

    a knot made around and so as to slide along a part of the same rope, thus forming a noose (running noose) that tightens as the rope is pulled.

  • snare

    one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.

  • cuckold's knot

    a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
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