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diamond hitch †
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a complicated hitch used in securing a pack on a horse, about forty feet of rope being thrown back and forth over the animal in such a way that it forms a diamond pattern on top.
Quotations
1872
. . . and then the triangular shaped load is bound in one by folds of shaganappi twisted firmly but without a knot, after a regular fashion called the "diamond hitch."
1963
. . . he learned the diamond hitch on the Chilcotin pack trails.
2
throw a diamond hitch, See note.
Since the rope used is thrown from one side of the horse to the other, a diamond hitch is said to be "thrown" and not "tied."
Quotations
1911
We took a pack pony, and I was shown how to throw the diamond hitch, quite a complicated business, if you don't know how.
1957
My partner . . . thought he knew how to throw a diamond hitch.