Timber-Hitch is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 326 anagrams from letters in timber-hitch (-bcehhiimrtt).
First recorded in 1880-85
A timber-hitch; when tightened the line binds around the timber so that it will not slip.
When you want a temporary fastening, secure yet easily undone, make a timber-hitch (Fig. 70).
We put a timber-hitch round the body of the mine and hung the hitch up with strands to two of the horns.
The timber-hitch should be kept in place on the bow, and the bowline-knot slipped back on the bow when it is unstrung.
A timber-hitch had better have the loose end twisted more than once, if the rope be stiff.
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