单词 | magnus hitch |
释义 | Magnus hitchn. Nautical. A type of knot tied with two round turns and a half hitch, and used typically to bind a rope to a spar, a ring, or the shackle of an anchor.Largely synonymous with rolling hitch (see rolling adj. and adv. Compounds 1), now the more usual term; for a slight distinction in meaning see the note there. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors > other specific sailors' knots bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 Magnus hitch1794 midshipman's hitch1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 cat's paw1840 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 Portuguese knot1871 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 Spanish bowline1968 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 182 Magnus hitch. Take two round turns through the ring of an anchor, &c. and bring the end over the standing part, then round the ring and through the bight. 1873 ‘Vanderdecken’ Yachts & Yachting vii. 70 A Magnus Hitch is made on the shackle of an anchor, a spar, or a rope, by taking two round turns round the ring or spar, passing the end over the standing part of the line, round the ring, or rope again, and up through the bight. 1944 C. W. Ashley Ashley Bk. Knots xviii. 265 The Rolling Hitch was formerly called Magnus Hitch and Magner's Hitch. If the latter is correct, Mr. Magner is the only rival that Matthew Walker has. Of the latter, it has been said that he is ‘the only man to have a Knot named for him’. 1981 M. Piotrowska tr. M. Bigon & G. Regazzoni Century Guide to Knots 62 The Magnus or Manger's [sic] hitch, is the best knot for bending a small rope to a larger one. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1794 |
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