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Constrictor Knot
This knot was invented in the 1930s by Clifford Ashley, the author of The Ashley
Book of Knots.
Its defining feature, compared to the clove hitch, on which it is based, comes
from the fact that the two half hitches do not work one after the other, but
together.
The constrictor knot is much more effective than the clove hitch and will not
come undone.