Knots are used to fasten and secure material such as string or rope to itself or something else. Due to England's strong naval tradition, the English language has a large technical vocabulary for describing knots. Of relevance here, a bend is a knot used to attach two pieces of line together, and a hitch is a knot used to attach a piece of line to rigid object.

Subcategories

There are 3 subcategories to this category.

L

• Lashing knots

R

• Running knots

S

• Knot stubs

Articles in category "Knots"

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List of knots A Adjustable hitch Adjustable loop Albright knot Alpine butterfly bend Alpine butterfly knot Anchor bend Angler's loop Arbor knot Artillery loop Ashley's stopper knot Austrian Knot Axle Hitch B Bachmann knot Bale sling hitch Barrel hitch Becket hitch Beer knot Binder's knot Binding (knot) Blackwall hitch Blake's hitch Blood knot Blood loop knot Boa knot Bowline Bowline on a bight Bumper knot C Carrick bend Carrick mat Cat's paw (knot) Catshank Clove hitch Common whipping Constrictor knot Corned beef knot Cow hitch Cowboy Bowline Cunt splice

D Diamond knot Double bowline Double sheet bend Dropper loop E Eskimo bowline F Farmer's loop Figure-of-eight follow through Figure-of-eight knot Figure-of-eight loop Fireman's chair knot Fisherman's knot Four in hand knot G Gordian Knot Granny knot Grief knot H Half hitch Heaving line bend Highwayman's hitch Hitch Hunter's bend I Icicle hitch K Klemheist knot Knot Knot tying Korean knots L Lashing knot List of bend knots List of binding knots List of coil knots List of hitch knots List of lashing knots List of loop knots List of seizing knots List of sennit knots List of splices List of stopper knots List of trick knots Loop (knot) M Man o' war sheepshank Manharness knot

M cont. Manrope knot Marlinespike hitch Matthew Walker knot Midshipman's hitch Monkey's fist O Overhand knot Overhand knot with draw-loop P Packer's knot Pile hitch Pioneering Plait Poldo tackle Prusik knot R Reef knot Round turn and two half hitches S Sailor's hitch Sheepshank Sheet bend Shroud knot Single hitch Slipped buntline hitch Slippery eight loop Span loop Standing end Stevedore's knot Stopper (knot) T Taut-line hitch Thief knot Timber hitch Triple bowline Trucker's hitch True lover's knot Tug boat hitch Turks head knot V Versatackle knot W Water bowline Whipping knot Z Zeppelin bend