single knot

I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing ravelled out.

I took care to tie all the knots myself, to be sure of their firmness, for a single knot badly tied would have cost us our life.

The only one which seemed to be equally injurious is the common single knot, of which no diagram is necessary.

In the bosom of her robe was a bunch of orange blooms, and her rippling hair was tied in a single knot behind her shapely head.

Follow the lead of the single knot through two single bights, the ends coming out at the top of the knot.