a simple but very secure knot, used in fastening the bowline-bridles to the cringles.
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| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific (32) bowline-knot1627 a simple but very secure knot, used in fastening the bowline-bridles to the cringles. clinch1627 Nautical. ‘A method of fastening large ropes by a half-hitch, with the end stopped back to its own part by seizings’ (Adm. Smyth): that part of a… sheepshank1627 Nautical. In full †sheepshank(s) knot: A knot cast on a rope for temporarily shortening it without cutting it or unfastening the ends. wall-knot1627 A secure knot made on the end of a rope by unlaying and intertwining the strands. running bowline1710 a running noose formed by tying a bowline knot at one end of a rope and passing the other end through the resulting loop; a similar noose used when… running bowline knot1726 = running bowline n. bend1769 Nautical. A knot, used to unite one rope to another, or to something else; there are various kinds, as the cable bend, carrick bend, fisherman's bend… clove-hitch1769 A ‘hitch’ or mode of simply fastening a rope round a spar, etc., formed by passing the rope twice round in such a way that both ends pass under the… half-hitch1769 Naut. A hitch formed by passing the end of a rope round its standing part, and then through the bight: the simplest form of hitch. hitch1769 Chiefly Nautical. Applied to a noose or knot of various kinds, by which a rope is caught round or temporarily made fast to some object. See clove-… walnut1769 = wall-knot, n. Also walnut-knot. cat's paw1794 Nautical. ‘A twisting hitch, made in the bight of a rope, so as to induce two small bights, in order to hook a tackle on them both’ (Smyth). midshipman's hitch1794 a type of knot (see quot. 1886). reef knot1794 A double knot consisting of a pair of overhand knots tied in opposing directions, and originally used to secure the reefpoints of a sail. clench1804 Nautical. The clinch, n.1 of a cable. French shroud knot1808 a knot in which the ends of two ropes are spliced by tying the separated individual strands to each other. carrick bend1819 A knot for splicing two ropes together, formed by looping the two ends to be joined, and interlacing them, each going at every intersection, now… bowline1823 Short for bowline-knot n. at compounds. slippery hitch1832 a knot made fast by catching part of the rope beneath the bight, released at a pull on the free end; also figurative. wall1834 = wall-knot, n. Matthew Walker1841 In full Matthew Walker knot. A knot tied in the separated strands of the end of a rope. shroud-knot1860 a knot used in repairing a parted shroud. stopper-knotc1860 a kind of knot used for the ends of stoppers. marling hitch1867 = marlinspike hitch n. at marlinspike, n. compounds. wind-knot1870 a knot tied on a rope, supposed magically to ensure a favourable wind. Portuguese knot1871 any of various types of knot (see quots.). rosette1875 Nautical. A type of knot involving two loops tied overhand; a bow. Now rare. chain knota1877 (see quot.). stopper-hitch1876 (see quot. 1876). swab-hitch1883 (see quot. 1883). monkey fist1917 = monkey's fist n. (b). Spanish bowline1968 (see quot. 1968). |
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