KNOTS AND HITCHES. 47 



KNOTS AND HITCHES. 



Knots are made in joining or attaching ropes, 

 &c., together, and are very numerous. Hitches 

 are a kind of knot or noose by which one rope 

 is fastened to another, or to a post, ring, timber- 

 head, &c. 



Plate VI, Fig. 4, in the plate is called a half- 

 hitch. 



,, 7, is a bowline knot. 



,, 6, is a clove hitch. 



,, ,, 5, is a timber hitch. 



VIII, 5, is a magnus hitch. 



1, is a Blackwall hitch. 



VII, 1, is a diamond knot. 



,, VIII, 6, is the above when hauled taut. 



VII, 3, is the buoy-rope knot. 



VIII, 5, is a rolling hitch. 



6, is a double diamond knot. 



,, 12, wall knot. 



,, VII, 7, figure-of-eight knot. 



,,S 7, reef knot. 

 4, slings. 



VLII, 3, carrick bend. 



