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• Knot

  ·noun A protuberant joint in a plant. II. Knot ·noun ·see <<Node>>. III. Knot ·noun An ornamental ...

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• knot

  A large knob formed on the extremity of a rope, generally by untwisting its ends, and interweaving t...

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• Clytie knot

  ·add. ·- In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of t...

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• Cuckold's knot

  ·- A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed an...

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• wharl-knot

  a hard knot. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• bowline-knot

  That by which the bowline-bridles were fastened to the cringles: the bowline-knot is made by an invo...

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• cuckold's-knot

  or neck. A knot by which a rope is secured to a spar the two parts of the rope crossing each oth...

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• diamond-knot

  An ornamental knot worked with the strands of a rope, sometimes used for bucket-strops, on the foot-...

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• granny's knot

  This is a term of derision when a reef-knot is crossed the wrong way, so as to be insecure. It is th...

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• overhand knot

  Is made by passing the end of a rope over its standing part, and through the bight. ...

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• reef-knot

  Is one in which the ends fall always in a line with the outer parts; in fact, two loops, easy to unt...

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• shroud-knot

  See knot. ...

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• slip-knot

  , or slippery-hitch. One which will not bear any strain, but will either become untied, or will tr...

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• snarl-knot

  A northern expression for a knot that cannot be drawn loose. ...

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• square-knot

  The same as reef-knot. ...

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• stopper-knot

  Single and double wall, without crowning, and the ends stopped together. ...

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• walker's knot

  See matthew walker. ...

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• wale-knot

  See wall-knot ...

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• wall-knot

  , or wale-knot. A particular sort of large knot raised upon the end of a rope, by untwisting the s...

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• top-knot pigeon

  n. an Australian bird, Lopholaimus antarcticus, Shaw. 1891. Francis Adams, `John Webb's End,' p. 3...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• buoy-rope knot

  Used where the end is lashed to the shank. A knot made by unlaying the strands of a cable-laid rope,...

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• double wall-knot

  With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...

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• french shroud-knot

  The shroud-knot with three strands single walled round the bights of the other three and the standin...

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• running bowline-knot

  Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part. ...

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• Fox and Knot Court

  West out of Cow Lane and north through Fox and Knot Inn to Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (H...

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• Fox and Knot Inn

  See Fox and Knot Court. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• sprit-sail sheet knot

  May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...

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