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a bend knot used to securely attach two lines or ropes in a firm, manner while still being able to adjust the length of the combined lines.
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an end loop knot, which, as the name suggests, is easy to adjust the loop size without untying.
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A type of bend knot used to join ropes of very different diameters and materials to one another.
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A type of knot used to provide an anchor point on a long line. Also known as the butterfly knot.
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A type of knot used to provide an anchor point on a long line. Much used by mountaineers. Also known simply as the butterfly knot.
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A type of knot used to secure a coiled rope.
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(topology) A knot that has a knot diagram in which, in traveling along the knot, one passes through intersections alternatingly: over, under, over, under, etc.
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A common name some types of knot also known as the fisherman's knot.
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(fishing) A type of knot used to secure fishing line to the arbor of a fishing reel.
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A type of knot used to create a loop on the bight of a rope. Considered to be rather unstable. Also known as the harness loop or manharness hitch
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A type of bend knot which has proven stability and grip.
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A type of knot used to provide a symmetrical stop at the end of a rope to prevent it from pulling through an eyelet or other fixed opening. Also known as the oysterman's stopper.
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A type of knot often used by millers to fasten the neck of a sack of grain or flour.
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A type of bend knot used to join nylon lines and cords, for its ability to maintain line strength and its non-slip quality. Also known as the blood knot.
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A type of bend knot used to join the ends of tubular webbing, commonly employed by mountaineers to create a sling seat.
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Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
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A type of bend knot used to join nylon lines and cords, for its ability to maintain line strength and its non-slip quality. Also known as the barrel knot.
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A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
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A knot that has two loops and two loose ends, either used decoratively, or to tie shoelaces.
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A type of open loop knot often used to form a lariat, or for a bowstring end, as the name suggests.
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A type of bend knot, very similar to the butterfly knot, but used to join two ropes.
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A type of knot used to provide an anchor point on a long line. Much used by mountaineers. Also known as the alpine butterfly knot.
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A type of knot which is useful for shortening a rope or taking up slack.
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A stylised knot design used in Celtic artwork for decoration, although it can also be constructed as an actual knot built from cord.
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Various types of chain knots made in a line or rope which, in its simplest form, is formed by pulling successive loops of the line through the previous loop. More complex sinnets can be produced using hitches, doubled loops and so on rather than simple loops. Used mainly to shorten the line or rope, or to make for easy storage. Also used for decorative purposes.
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Alternative form of knot loop
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A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
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A type of knot or hitch often used to fasten the neck of a sack of grain or flour. This knot has diverse practical applications as it is very stable and can be difficult to release.
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(mathematics) A particular knot with 11 crossings, related by mutation to the Kinoshita-Terasaka knot.
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(UK) a hitch knot used to tension ropes, often for the purpose of securing loads for transport.
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Doubled version of the sheet bend; a strong knot used to tie two ropes of different diameters together.
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(knots) Two nearby crossings of a rope.
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A knot, at the end of a rope, used to stop it fraying, as a handhold, or as decoration.
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A loop knot made in the bight. Favoured by fishermen as quick and secure. Also known as fisherman's knot, fisherman's loop, Englishman's knot, water knot, waterman's knot.
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A loop knot made in the bight, favoured by fishermen as quick and secure.
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A type of knot generally used to create load-sharing on two anchor points, with adjustable length stand loops to the hitch points.
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The knot otherwise known as an offset overhand bend
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A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
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The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.
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(nautical) A series of evenly spaced overhand knots in a rope, which make it more secure for climbing or descending. Often used for fire escapes and jib boom foot ropes on rigged sail ships. Also known as the Philadelphia knot.
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a loop knot made in the bight. Favoured by fishermen as quick and secure. Also known as fisherman's loop, English knot, Englishman's knot, water knot, waterman's knot.
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A loop knot made in the bight. Favoured by fishermen as quick and secure. Also known as fisherman's knot, English knot, Englishman's knot, water knot, waterman's knot.
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A type of bend knot used to join the ends of two ropes of similar thickness, based on the figure-of-eight knot.
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(chiefly US) A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie.
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(Greek mythology) The legendary knot tied to a pole near the temple of Zeus in Gordium.
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A knot similar to the reef knot but crossed the opposite way.
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(knots) A knot or hitch made by passing the end of the rope once around the standing part or other rope.
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A knot tied in the bight, having two adjustable loops in opposing directions, able to be tightened around hands or feet.
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A type of bend knot used to join the ends of two cords. It can be tied while maintaining tension in the cords.
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A type of knot generally known as the artillery loop.
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(Southwestern US) A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
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A type of open loop knot often used to form a lariat.
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A team-building exercise in which a group of people form a circle and hold hands with others in the circle, and then disentangle themselves.
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a type of bend, a double overhand knot used to join the ends of similar types of cord with no slip.
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A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
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Work involving the tying of knots.
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Synonym of cow hitch (“type of knot consisting of a pair of half hitches tied in opposing directions”)
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(ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
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(mathematics) A Legendrian knot
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A knot or bow, as of ribbon.
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A knot tied similarly to a rolling hitch but with the final hitch in the opposite direction.
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A type of knot generally known as the artillery loop.
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Any of various types of knot used by millers to fasten the neck of a sack of grain or flour.
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A type of knot tied at the end of a rope to serve as a weight, making it easier to throw the line.
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A type of bend knot used to join two fine lines, commonly used with fishing lines.
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(ropemaking) A process, resembling splicing, by which two ropes are joined so as to form one rope.
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A knot used to join two ropes together
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A particular very simple knot, used e.g. to prevent the end of a rope from unraveling, and as part of other knots.
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A type of knot used to provide a symmetrical stop at the end of a rope to prevent it from pulling through an eyelet or other fixed opening.
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(nautical) Synonym of fire-escape knot
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A particular kind of knot for fastening a necktie.
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(topology) A pretzel link which is a knot.
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a type of bend knot used to join the ends of two lines or ropes of very different thicknesses. The finer cord is woven between the two stands of a bight or loop of the thicker rope, and pulled tight after each pass. Racking like this forms the basis for many other bends and knots.
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(mathematics, knot theory) Any of three local moves on a link diagram: (i) twist and untwist in either direction; (ii) move one loop completely over another; (iii) move a string completely over or under a crossing.
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(mathematics) The length of a ribbon (in a ribbon knot)
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A type of knot often used by millers to fasten the neck of a sack of grain or flour.
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Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.
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A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.
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A type of knot that can be used to join two ropes of different diameters.
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a type of bend knot used to join the ends of laid ropes, by separating the strands and knotting them together individually. Commonly used to join a snapped shroud rope.
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(of rope) Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or centre.
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A common knot used to tie a necktie.
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a type of bend knot used to join two ropes.
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a type of bend knot used to join two ropes, variation of the Simple Simon over.
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(mathematics) A mathematical knot in three-dimensional space that bounds a disc in four-dimensional space.
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A knot which attaches a line to an object and tightens when pressure is applied. Also called a running knot.
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Alternative spelling of slip knot [A knot which attaches a line to an object and tightens when pressure is applied. Also called a running knot.]
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A common binding knot in which the terminal and standing parts are parallel to each other.
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(mathematics) A knot made from a single loop that crosses itself three times
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A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
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(mathematics) A knot for which there is an almost identical trivial knot.
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A knot derived from the reef knot, commonly used by surgeons.
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A type of ribbon attached to the hilt of a sword, originally as a way of fastening it to the wrist, but later chiefly as an ornament.
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An adjustable loop knot for use on lines under tension, made by tying a rolling hitch around the standing part after passing around an anchor object.
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(nautical, technology) Of a cable or rope, or a piece of machinery or other device: having a thimble (“ring-, thimble-, or tube-shaped component”).
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A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
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One who ties (knots, etc).
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(weaving) To weave in this manner.
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(topology) A knot formed by joining the two loose ends of a overhand knot to form a knotted loop; the simplest non-trivial knot.
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A cord, line, lanyard, or wire that, when pulled, mechanically activates a device.
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Any of various knots (for string or the like) having some symmetry.
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Alternative form of true-love-knot [A bracelet which partners both wear to show their love.]
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A knot, or any of various similar kinds of knot, resulting in a ball of rope.
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Synonym of Ghiordes knot
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A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
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A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first.
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A type of bend knot used to join the ends of lines or flat material such as tubular webbing.
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Having a left-hand twist; said of cordage.
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A loop knot made in the bight. Favoured by fishermen as quick and secure. Also known as fisherman's knot, fisherman's loop, English knot, Englishman's knot, water knot.
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A wide triangular knot of a particular sort in a necktie.
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(knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
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A type of bend knot used to join lines and cords, for its ability to maintain line strength and security, along with ease of release. Also known as the Rosendahl bend.
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