Knots, Splices and Rope Work by A. Hyatt Verrill - HTML preview

INDEX

Artificial eye
 

 Baggage
 Barrels
 Beams
 Belaying-pin
 Belaying-pin splice
 Belting
 Bends
 Bight
 Billet
 Blackwall hitch
 Blocks
 Bolt-rope
 Bow-knots
 Bow-line
 Bow-line on bight
 Bow shortening
 Boxes
 Bridles
 Builders' hitch
 Builders' knot
 Bundles
 Butchers' knots
 

 Cable
 Casks
 Catspaws
 Chain hitch
 Chain knots
 Chests
 Cleat tie
 Clinches
 Close band
 Clove hitch
 Cordage
 Core
 Cotton
 Cotton rope
 Crown braid
 Crowning
 Crown knots
 Cuckolds' necks
 Cut splice
 

 Deadeye lashing
 Deadeyes
 Dogshanks
 Double chain
 Double crown
 Double figure-eight
 Double knots
 Double plait
 Double wall
 Double wall and crown
 

 End
 Ending
 Ending rope
 End pointing
 Eyes
 Eye splice
 

 Fancy knots
 Fibres
 Fid
 Figure-eight knot
 Fisherman's hitch
 Fisherman's knot
 Fivefold knot
 Flemish eye
 Fourfold knot
 Four-strand braid
 Four-stranded rope
 French shroud knot
 

 Gaff-topsail halyard bend
 Garrick bend
 Gordian knot
 Granny knot
 Grass
 Grommets
 Gunners' knot
 Gut lines
 

 Half-hitch
 Half-hitch and seizing
 Half-hitch work
 Handcuff kings
 Handcuffs
 Handles
 Handspike
 Hawser hitch
 Hawsers
 Hemp
 Hemp rope
 History of rope
 Hitches
 Hooks
 

 Introduction
 

 Jute
 

 Lanyards
 Larks' heads
 Lashed cut splice
 Lashings
 Laying up
 Leather braid
 Left-handed rope
 Long splice
 Loop lashings
 Loop knots
 Loops
 

 Magnus hitch
 Manacles
 Manila rope
 Manrope knot
 Marline
 Marline spike
 Marline-spike seamanship
 Matthew Walker knot
 Midshipman's hitch
 Monkey chain
 Mooring knots
 

 Necklace tie
 Nettles
 Nooses
 

 Open chain
 Open-hand knot
 Ordinary knot
 Overhand knot
 

 Packages
 Parcelling
 Parts of rope
 Pier bend
 Pointed rope
 Pointing
 

 Quoits
 

 Reef knot
 Reefing knots
 Repairing rope
 Rigging
 Right-hand rope
 Rings
 Roband hitch
 Rolling hitch
 Rope
 Rope buckles
 Rose lashing
 Round turn
 Running bow-line
 Running knot
 Running noose
 

 Sailors' knots
 Seized shortening
 Seizing
 Selvagee
 Selvagee board
 Selvagee strap
 Serving
 Serving mallet
 Sevagee
 Sheaves
 Sheepshanks
 Shortenings
 Short splice
 Shroud knots
 Silk
 Simple hitch
 Simple knots
 Single plait
 Sinkers
 Sisal flax
 Sixfold knot
 Slings
 Slip knots
 Slippery hitch
 Snaking
 Spars
 Spiles
 Splices
 Splicing
 Square knots
 Standing part
 Stopper knot
 Stoppers
 Stops
 Strands
 Straps
 Strength of rope
 String
 Studding-sail bend
 Swivels
 

 Tackle
 Threefold knot
 Throat seizing
 Ties
 Timber
 Timber hitch
 Toggles
 Tomfool knot
 Topsail-halyard toggle
 Treble knot
 Turks' caps
 Turks' heads
 Twine
 Twist braid
 Twist knot
 Twist shortening
 Twists
 

 Wall and crown
 Wall crowned
 Wall knots
 Warp
 Waterman's knot
 Weaver's knot
 Wedding knot
 Weight of rope
 Wharf tie
 Whipping
 Wind knots
 Wire rope
 Worming
 
 Yarn