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A loop that tightens the more you fight it, a lesson in physics and panic.
means A loop of rope with a sliding knot that cinches tighter as the standing end is pulled, used for snaring, hanging, or fastening.
from From Middle English nose or nous, likely borrowed from Old French nous or nouse meaning 'knot,' itself from Latin nodus, 'knot' — the same root that ties up our 'node' and 'nodule.' So the noose is, etymologically, just 'a knot,' though history has given that plain little word a far heavier weight than its origins suggest.
- self-cinching
- Pulling one end only makes it grip harder
- sailor's roots
- Knot tying built ships before it ended lives
- thirteen turns
- The hangman's coil traditionally wraps thirteen times
- escape art
- Houdini studied nooses to slip them onstage
- the slipknot
- Same loop secures tents and tows boats safely
hanging of saddam hussein — executed by noose in baghdad, december 30, 2006
lynching of emmett till — murdered by noose in mississippi, august 28, 1955
execution of klaus barbie — nazi war criminal hanged in lyon prison, france, 1954