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Slip noose   /slɪp nus/   Listen
Slip noose

noun
1.
A loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled.  Synonyms: noose, running noose.






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"Slip noose" Quotes from Famous Books



... have traveled that way for hours through the storm until we reached the tall woods below the limit of the snow. When I came to myself, I was lying on a bed of fern in a bright morning and Nukewis was cooking quail which she had snared with a slip noose made of her hair. I ate—I could eat now that I had had my Vision—and grew strong. All the upper mountain was white like a tent of deerskin, but where we were there was only thin ice on ...
— The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al



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