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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific (32)
bowline-knot1627

a simple but very secure knot, used in fastening the bowline-bridles to the cringles.

clinch1627

Nautical. ‘A method of fastening large ropes by a half-hitch, with the end stopped back to its own part by seizings’ (Adm. Smyth): that part of a…

sheepshank1627

Nautical. In full †sheepshank(s) knot: A knot cast on a rope for temporarily shortening it without cutting it or unfastening the ends.

wall-knot1627

A secure knot made on the end of a rope by unlaying and intertwining the strands.

running bowline1710

a running noose formed by tying a bowline knot at one end of a rope and passing the other end through the resulting loop; a similar noose used when…

running bowline knot1726

= running bowline n.

bend1769

Nautical. A knot, used to unite one rope to another, or to something else; there are various kinds, as the cable bend, carrick bend, fisherman's bend

clove-hitch1769

A ‘hitch’ or mode of simply fastening a rope round a spar, etc., formed by passing the rope twice round in such a way that both ends pass under the…

half-hitch1769

Naut. A hitch formed by passing the end of a rope round its standing part, and then through the bight: the simplest form of hitch.

hitch1769

Chiefly Nautical. Applied to a noose or knot of various kinds, by which a rope is caught round or temporarily made fast to some object. See clove-

walnut1769

= wall-knot, n. Also walnut-knot.

cat's paw1794

Nautical. ‘A twisting hitch, made in the bight of a rope, so as to induce two small bights, in order to hook a tackle on them both’ (Smyth).

midshipman's hitch1794

a type of knot (see quot. 1886).

reef knot1794

A double knot consisting of a pair of overhand knots tied in opposing directions, and originally used to secure the reefpoints of a sail.

clench1804

Nautical. The clinch, n.1 of a cable.

French shroud knot1808

a knot in which the ends of two ropes are spliced by tying the separated individual strands to each other.

carrick bend1819

A knot for splicing two ropes together, formed by looping the two ends to be joined, and interlacing them, each going at every intersection, now…

bowline1823

Short for bowline-knot n. at compounds.

slippery hitch1832

a knot made fast by catching part of the rope beneath the bight, released at a pull on the free end; also figurative.

wall1834

= wall-knot, n.

Matthew Walker1841

In full Matthew Walker knot. A knot tied in the separated strands of the end of a rope.

shroud-knot1860

a knot used in repairing a parted shroud.

stopper-knotc1860

a kind of knot used for the ends of stoppers.

marling hitch1867

= marlinspike hitch n. at marlinspike, n. compounds.

wind-knot1870

a knot tied on a rope, supposed magically to ensure a favourable wind.

Portuguese knot1871

any of various types of knot (see quots.).

rosette1875

Nautical. A type of knot involving two loops tied overhand; a bow. Now rare.

chain knota1877

(see quot.).

stopper-hitch1876

(see quot. 1876).

swab-hitch1883

(see quot. 1883).

monkey fist1917

= monkey's fist n. (b).

Spanish bowline1968

(see quot. 1968).

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