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wall-knot, wale-knot|ˈwɔːlnɒt|, |ˈweɪlnɒt|
Also 8 (? erron.) walled knot.
[The first element is of obscure origin. The word is found in mod. Scandinavian langs.: Sw., Norw. valknut, Da. valknude, double knot, secure knot (not confined to nautical use); in Norw. also the gammadion or swastika. Cf. Ger. waldknoten (as if ‘wood-knot’, prob. a popular etymology), in hunting language, a double knot.]
A secure knot made on the end of a rope by unlaying and intertwining the strands.
1627Capt. J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 27 The Wall knot..is a round knot, so made with the strouds [read stronds] or layes of a rope, it cannot slip. 1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict. 70 Nippers are small roapes..with a little Truck at one end (or some have only a wale-knot). 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Wale-knot, or Wall-knot, a particular sort of large knot raised upon the end of a rope, by untwisting the strands. 1773Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 166 A wale knot is made with the three strands of a rope, so that it cannot slip. 1788Clarkson Impolicy of Slave Trade 46 A rope..with nine tails at one end of it, and a double walled knot of nearly eight inches in circumference at the other. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Double Wall-knot, with or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a peculiar manner. 1883Man. Seamanship (1886) 121 A single-wall knot... A double-wall... A double-wall, double-crowned. |