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The steeple-jack's instructor

NAMES OF KNOTS, BENDS, BIGHTS AND HITCHES

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Black Wall Hitch

Bow Knots

Bow-line

Bow-line on bight

Bow shortening

Builders’ hitch

Builders’ knot

Butchers’ knots

Catspaws

Chain hitch

Chain knots

Clinches

Close band

Clove hitch

Crown knots

Cuckolds’ necks

Deadeyes

Dogshanks

Double chain

Double crown

Double figure-eight

Double knots

Double wall

Double wall and crown

Eye splice

Figure-eight knot

Fisherman’s hitch

Fisherman’s knot

Fivefold knot

Flemish eye

Fourfold knot

French shroud knot

Gaff-topsail halyard bend

Garrick bend

Gordian knot

Granny knot

Gunner’s knot

Half-hitch

Half-hitch and seizing

Half-hitch

Hawser hitch

Hawsers

Hitches

Larks’ heads

Magnus hitch

Manrope knot

Matthew Walker knot

Midshipmen’s hitch

Mooring knots

Open-hand knot

Ordinary knot

Overhand knot

Pier bend

Reef knot

Reefing knots

Roband hitch

Rolling hitch

Running bow-line

Running knot

Sailors’ knots

Sheepshanks

Short splice

Shroud knots

Simple hitch

Simple knots

Sixfold knot

Slip knots

Slippery hitch

Square knots

Stopper knot

Threefold knot

Throat seizing

Timber hitch

Tomfool knot

Treble knot

Turks’ caps

Turks’ heads

Twist knot

Wall knots

Waterman’s knot

Weavers’ knot

Wedding knot

Whipping

Wind knots

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