Knots

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In Seamanship , knots are in everyday day use. Learn to tie the Bowline with one hand, the running hitch to free a line jammed on a winch "overwind" , the sheet bend to tie the sheet to the head sail clew, the clove hitch to tie horse outside the saloon's hitching post.

1, Thumb or over-hand knot, tied at the end of a rope to prevent it from opening out, &c. 2, Right or reef-knot, for securing all lashings where the ends of the rope meet together. 3, Draw-knot, which offers great facility in undoing. 4, Running-knot, used to bind or draw anything close. 5, Sheepshank, serving to shorten a rope without cutting it or unfastening the ends. 6, Clove-hitch, which binds with excessive force, and by which alone a weight can be hung to a smooth pole. 7, Timber-hitch, very useful in hauling to move a weight. 8, Single bowline-knot, easy to undo, useful to throw over a post &c., to haul on, used for the draw-loop of a slip noose. 9, Double bowline-knot, for slinging a cask. 10, Running bowline-knot. 11, Woolding or packing-stick hitch, used to tighten ropes. 12, Men's harness hitch, passing over the shoulder and under the opposite arm of men drawing a carriage, &c. 13, Stopper hitch, for stoppering the fall of a tackle, &c. 14, Inside clinch, for fastening a cable to the anchor ring, &c. 15, Common or sheet bend, a very secure method of joining two ropes, or fastening a rope to a loop. 16, Hawser bend, for joining two ropes, easily undone. 17, Cat's paw, the turn in the bight of a rope, for hooking a tackle to it. 18, Dragrope or lever-hitch, used for fixing hand-spikes or capstanbars to the ropes attached to heavy carriages, &c., which have to be moved by men. 19, Half-hitch, cast on the bight of a rope. 20, Carrick bend. A wall-knot is a knot made at the end of a rope to prevent it from passing through a hole.