Noun
(historical) One of the earliest European settlers of the eventual colony of British Honduras, modern-day Belize.
(US, naval) A sickbay nurse.
(Newfoundland) A rural Newfoundlander, as opposed to a townie (city dweller).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgPhysical theory of friction knots seeAlso A simple mathematical theory of hitches has been proposed by Bayman Bayman, "Theory of hitches," Am J Phys, 45 (1977) 185 and extended by Maddocks and Keller. Source: Internet