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2. Rolling hitch - Wikipedia

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   The rolling hitch is a knot (see also Magnus hitch) used to attach a rope to a rod, pole, or another rope. A simple friction hitch, it is used for lengthwise pull along an object rather than at right angles. The rolling hitch is designed to resist lengthwise movement for only a single direction of pull.

3. Hitch (knot) - Wikipedia

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   A knot used to attach a rope to a rod, pole, or other rope. (See also Rolling hitch) Marline Hitching: A knot used to attach a rope to a cylindrical object. Similar in appearance to the Chain Hitch, but a succession of overhand knots. Marlinespike hitch: A temporary knot used to attach a rod to a rope in order to form a handle. Midshipman's hitch

4. Flagpole - Wikipedia

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   A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The flag is fixed to one lower end of the cord, and is then raised by pulling on the other end.

5. Wikipedia:How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an ...

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   However, the straightest of straight poles should ensue, so long as there's an equally energetic group of warriors pushing the pole in the other direction. Importantly, pole straightening is not a function of numbers of people pushing, as one very enthusiastic warrior can be the equal of any number of people half-heartedly pushing the other way.

6. Raising the flags: A family tradition kept alive in the Pool ...

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   The green, white, passing, checker, red, black and yellow flags that surround the two-and-a-half-mile-long track have been raised by the same family since the early 1970s.

7. List of knots - Wikipedia

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   Magnus hitch (rolling hitch) – used to attach a rope to a rod, pole, or other rope; Manharness knot (artillery loop) – knot with a loop on the bight for non-critical purposes; Matthew Walker knot – decorative knot that is used to keep the end of a rope from fraying