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| Releasing: Jamming. Non-jamming.<BR> | Releasing: Jamming. Non-jamming.<BR> | ||
| Efficiency: 60-75%<BR> | Efficiency: Unknown%.60-75%.<BR> | ||
| Caveat: None.].].secure if wet.not secure if wet.<BR> | Caveat: None.].].secure if wet.not secure if wet.<BR> | ||
| Uses: fishing, climbing<BR> | Uses: fishing, climbing<BR> | ||
| Methods: how to tie, picture &/or descriptions or each method<BR> | Methods: how to tie, picture &/or descriptions or each method<BR> | ||
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As a navigational term, knot is a measure of both length and velocity in nautical miles. In former times, ropes used to measure distance had a knot tied in them for each nautical mile. Thus, the number of knots passed in an hour is the equivalent of "nautical miles per hour". Therefore the expression "knots per hour" is redundant or incorrect.
A knot may consist of a length of one or more rope, cord, twine, string, strap or even chain interweaved so as to create in the line the ability to bind to itself or to some other object - the "load". Some knots are well adapted to bind to particular objects such as another rope, cleat, ring, stake or to constrict an object. Decorative knots usually bind to themselves to produce attractive patterns.
Knots have been the subject of interest both for their ancient origins, common use or their mathematical implications, see knot theory.
Knots are essential in many industrial, work, home or recreational activities. Truckers need to tie down a load and will use a Trucker's hitch, gaining a 2-to-1 mechanical advantage. Are you spelunking, having foolishly but voluntarily buried yourself pre-maturely under millions of tons of rock? What ever the activity, on the water sailing or on a cliff-side rock climbing. Learning well tested knots prior to some hazardous activity introduces a critical measure of safety. Even simple activities such as running a load from the hardware store to home can result in disaster if a clumsy twist in a cord passes for a knot.
Besides safety, using the appropriate knot can also save having to cut a line unnecessarily.
The list of knots is extensive but there are some general properties common to the various knot categories. For example, loop knots share the attribute of having some kind of an anchor point tied on the standing end (such as a loop or overhand knot) into which the working end is easily hitched to using a round turn). An example of this is the Bowline Knot. Constricting knots often rely on friction to cinch down tight on loose bundles. An example would be the clove hitch.
Some useful terms pertinent to the making of knots:
- standing end -- The end of the rope not involved in making the knot, often shown as unfinished.
- standing part -- Section of line between knot and the standing end.
- working end -- The active end of a line used in making the knot.
- working part -- Section of line between knot and the working end.
- bight -- The center part of the rope as opposed to the ends. The definition changes depending on whether the definite or indefinite article is used:
- The bight is the portion of the rope between its two ends.
- A bight is a U-shaped loop used in making a knot. Many knots, such as the bowline can be tied with either the end or the bight.
- loop -- A full circle formed by passing the working end over itself.
- elbow -- Two crossing points created by an extra twist in a loop.
Knots may span multiple categories:
- bend -- a knot uniting two lines, or two parts of the same line
- binding
- coil
- decorative
- hitch -- a knot tied to a post, cable, ring, or spar, etc.
- lashing
- loop
- noose -- knot tied with a hitch around one of its parts, contrasted with a loop, which is closed with a bend. A noose can be closed, a loop remains the same size.
- plaits
- stopper
- sennit
- whipping
Some knots have multiple names. For example the overhand is also known as the thumb knot. The Constrictor Knot, the Bag Knot, the Miller's Knot are all the same knot.
Alphabetical List of knots (Format of sub-topics, see below.)
The variant knot names are included in the list with redirecting links to the most formal name. (approx 300 knots are list at this time)
- adjustable bend
- adjustable hitch
- adjustable loop
- albright knot
- alpine butterfly bend
- Alpine butterfly knot
- alpine butterfly loop
- alpine coil
- alternate ring hitching
- anchor bend
- anchor bend
- angler's knot
- angler's loop
- arbor knot
- artillery loop
- asher's equalizer
- ashley's stopper knot
- bachmann knot
- bachmann knot
- bag knot
- bait loop
- bale sling hitch
- barrel knot
- barrel sling
- becket hitch
- bimini twist
- binder's knot
- blackwall hitch
- blake's hitch
- blood knot
- blood loop dropper knot
- boa knot
- boas bowline
- boatman's knot
- boom hitch
- bottle sling
- bottom loaded release hitch
- bow knot
- bowline on bight
- bowline
- bowstring knot
- braid knot
- brummycham bowline
- buffer knot
- builder's knot
- buntline hitch
- carrick bend
- carrick mat
- cat's paw
- caver's helical knot
- chain hitch
- chain stitch lashing
- chi-fi knot
- chinese button knot
- chinese cross knot
- chinese good luck knot
- chinese lanyard knot
- clinging clara
- clove hitch
- common whipping
- constrictor knot
- continuous ring hitching
- cow hitch with toggle
- cow hitch
- cross-prusik knot
- crossing knot
- diamond hitch
- diamond knot
- double bowline
- double carrick bend
- double chain
- double chain
- double figure eight bend
- double figure eight
- double friction hitch
- double grinner knot
- double harness bend with parallel ends
- double munter friction hitch
- double overhand bend
- double overhand loop
- double overhand sliding loop
- double overhand
- double pile hitch
- double prusik knot
- double ring hitching
- double scaffold knot
- double sheet bend
- double stopper
- double uni knot
- draw kot
- dropper loop
- duncan loop
- dutch marine bowline
- dutra double loop knot
- eight strand square plait
- englishman's knot
- englishman's loop
- eskimo bowline
- extended french prusik knot
- eye splice
- farmer's knot
- farmer's loop
- figure-of-eight coil
- figure-of-eight follow through
- figure-of-eight hitch
- figure-of-eight knot
- figure-of-eight loop
- figure-of-eight coil
- fireman's chair knot
- fireman's coil
- fisherman's bend
- fisherman's eye
- fisherman's knot
- flemish bend
- flemish knot
- four-strand braid
- four-strand plait
- four-strand sennit
- french bowline
- french prusik knot
- frost knot
- gaff topsail halyard bend
- good luck knot
- granny knot
- grief knot
- grinner knot
- gripping sailor's hitch
- ground-line hitch
- half blood knot
- half hitching
- half hitch
- halibut knot
- halter hitch
- halyard bend
- handcuff knot
- hangman's noose
- harness bend
- heaving line bend
- heaving line knot
- hedden knot
- hight post hitch
- highwayman's hitch
- hitching tie
- hunter's bend
- icicle hitch
- improved clinch knot
- italian hitch
- jamming hitch
- jansik special
- japanese crown knot
- japanese success knot
- jar sling
- jug sling
- jury mast knot
- killick hitch
- klemheist knot
- knife lanyard knot
- knute hitch
- kreuklem knot
- lariat loop
- lark's foot
- lark's head
- lighterman's hitch
- lineman's loop
- linfit knot
- long mat
- machard tresse
- magnus hitch
- major turle's knot
- manharness knot
- mariner's knot
- marline hitching
- marlinespike hitch
- midshipman's hitch
- miller's knot
- monkey's fist
- mooring hitch
- munster hitch
- munter friction hitch
- munter mule
- nail knot
- ocean plait
- one way sheet bend
- orvis knot
- ossel hitch
- ossel knot
- overhand bend
- overhand knot and half hitch
- overhand knot with draw loop
- overhand knot
- overhand loop
- oysterman's stopper knot
- packer's knot
- painter's hitch
- paldo tackle
- palomar knot
- pedigree cow hitch
- peg knot
- penberthy knot
- perfected whipping
- perfection loop
- pile hitch
- piwich knot
- plafond knot
- plank sling
- poldo tackle
- pole lashing
- portuguese bowline
- prusik knot
- racking bend
- reef knot
- rigger's bend
- ring hitch
- ring knot
- ringbolt hitching
- rolling hitch
- round hitch
- round mat
- round turn and two half hitches
- round turn
- running knot
- running loop
- rustler's knot
- sack knot
- sail maker's whipping
- sailor's knot
- sailor's hitch
- savoy knot
- scaffold knot
- seizing bend
- shake hands
- sheep shank man o' war
- sheepshank
- sheet bend
- simple chain
- simple knot
- simple noose
- simple simon double
- simple simon over
- simple simon under
- single hitch
- single stopper
- six strand round plait
- sliding loop
- sliding ring hitch
- slip knot
- slipped overhand knot
- slippery eight loop
- slippery hitch
- slippery round hitch
- snuggle hitch
- spade end knot
- spanish bowline
- splice
- square knot
- square lashing
- square turk's head
- stevedore's knot
- strangle knot
- strop bend
- surgeon's end loop
- surgeon's knot
- surgeon's loop
- tarbuck knot
- taut-line knot
- thief knot
- three quarter figure eight loop
- three way sheet bend
- three-strand braid
- thumb knot
- tiller's hitch
- timber hitch
- tom fool's knot
- top loaded release hitch
- transom knot
- trilene knot
- triple bowline
- triple figure eight
- triple overhand knot
- trucker's hitch
- true lover's knot
- tug boat hitch
- tumbling thief knot
- turle knot
- twined turk's head
- two half hitches
- two strand braid
- two strand overhand knot
- underhand loop hitching
- uni knot
- valdotain tresse
- vibration proof hitch
- vice versa
- wagoner's hitch
- water bowline
- water knot
- waterman's knot
- weaver's knot
- west country whipping
- wrapped and reef knotted coil
- yosemite bowline
- zepplin bowline
- zigzag braid
Format for the knot sub-topics.
Canonical Name: .
Variant Names: None. .
Category: bend.binding.coil.decorative.hitch.lashing.loop on the end.loop on the bight.plaits.stopper.sennit.whipping.
Origin: Ancient.Modern.
Similarities: to other knots
Releasing: Jamming. Non-jamming.
Efficiency: Unknown%.60-75%.
Caveat: None.spills.slips.secure if wet.not secure if wet.
Uses: fishing, climbing
Methods: how to tie, picture &/or descriptions or each method
A work in progress by: Satsun
In knot theory, a knot is an embedding of a circle in 3-D space, considered up to deformations (isotopies). This is basically equivalent to a conventional knot with the ends of the string tied together to prevent it from becoming undone. In higher dimensions, circles are unknotted anyways, so one considers embeddings of spheres and hyperspheres.