TYING KNOTS AND HITCHES 



397 



hook; the free end is then passed thru the hook, and the 

 standing part passed over it from the opposite side. 



397. Sheepshank (Fig. 394). The sheepshank is not a 

 hitch in the same sense as the other hitches described. It is 



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1 2 



FIG. 393. Blackwall hitch. 



used as a means of shortening ropes. To tie this hitch, a loop 

 is formed that is large enough to reduce the rope to desired 

 length (see 1, Fig. 394) and held in the left hand; a half hitch 

 is formed of the standing part of the rope and passed over 



FIG. 394. Sheepshank. 



each end of the loop, as in 2. o make this hitch permanent, the 

 standing part is drawn thru the bight at each end of the loop. 

 Splices: 



398. End or Crown Splice. This type of splice has been 

 described under head of means of preventing rope from 

 raveling (Fig. 369). 



