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  2. List of knots - Wikipedia

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    Grantchester knot – a method of tying a necktie; Granny knot – secures a rope or line around an object; Grief knot – (what knot) combines features of granny knot and thief knot; Gripping sailor's hitch – used to tie one rope to another, or a rope to a pole, when the pull is lengthwise along the object; Ground-line hitch – attaches a ...

  3. List of knot terminology - Wikipedia

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    The reef knot can capsize if one of its standing ends is pulled.. A knot that has capsized or spilled has deformed into a different structure. Although capsizing is sometimes the result of incorrect tying or misuse, it can also be done purposefully in certain cases to strengthen the knot (see the carrick bend [4]) or to untie a seized knot which would otherwise be difficult to release (see ...

  4. Jury mast knot - Wikipedia

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    The knot is placed at the top of a new mast with the mast projecting through the center of the knot. The loops of the knot are then used as anchor points for makeshift stays and shrouds . Usually small blocks of wood are affixed to, or a groove cut in, the new mast to prevent the knot from sliding downwards.

  5. Knot - Wikipedia

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    Knot board [] on Elbe 1 (ship, 1965). A knot is an intentional complication in cordage [1] which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two ends of a rope to each another; a loop knot is any knot creating a loop; and splice denotes any multi ...

  6. Sheet bend - Wikipedia

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    Weaver at Queen Street Mill demonstrating a weaver's knot Steps in tying a weaver's knot. The sheet bend may be tied by various methods: the basic "rabbit through the hole" method of forming a half hitch in the bight of the larger rope, by a more expedient method shown in Ashley as ABoK #1431 (similar to the method used by an experienced sailor or mountaineer to tie a bowline) or by a trick ...

  7. Bowline - Wikipedia

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    There is a potential with beginners to wrongly tie the bowline. This faulty knot stems from an incorrect first step while tying the rabbit hole. If the loop is made backwards so that the working end of the rope is on the bottom, the resulting knot will be the Eskimo bowline, looking like a sideways bowline, which is also a stable knot.

  8. Butterfly loop - Wikipedia

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    The butterfly loop, also known as lineman's loop, butterfly knot, alpine butterfly knot and lineman's rider, is a knot used to form a fixed loop in the middle of a rope. Tied in the bight , it can be made in a rope without access to either of the ends; this is a distinct advantage when working with long climbing ropes.

  9. Figure-eight knot - Wikipedia

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    The name figure-of-eight knot appears in Lever's Sheet Anchor; or, a Key to Rigging (London, 1808). The word "of" is nowadays usually omitted. The knot is the sailor's common single-strand stopper knot and is tied in the ends of tackle falls and running rigging, unless the latter is fitted with monkey's tails. It is used about ship wherever a ...

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