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The monkey's fist knot is most often used as the weight in a heaving line.

There was a message in his in-box from someone who signed himself Monkey's Fist.

Already prepared, he had only to throw the hard ball of the monkey's fist over and grab the tiller again to maintain course.

As a means of adding heft to a heaving line when a monkey's fist is not tied in its end.

Monkey's fist used to haul a heavier rope.

A floating monkey's fist can be created by tying around a buoyant material such as cork or styrofoam.

Some variants can be arranged into a roughly spherical shape, akin to a monkey's fist knot.

Similarly, a monkey's fist knot is essentially a 3-dimensional representation of the Borromean rings, albeit with three layers, in most cases.

The monkey's fist knot.

They are sometimes plastic balls, tennis balls, rubber balls or a monkey's fist knot.

An alternative fastener to a cufflink is the cheaper silk knot, which are also known as monkey's fists or Turk's head.

A lightweight feeder line would be tied to the bowline, then the weighted monkey's fist could be hurled between ship and dock.

Monkey's fists are commonly used as a convenient and unobtrusive method of storing and transporting precious gemstones.

A monkey's fist or monkey paw is a type of knot, so named because it looks somewhat like a small bunched fist/paw.

The kid fumbled around in his jacket pocket before handing Purdy his driver's license and a ring of keys the size of a monkey's fist.

And when Rumfoord's class was diagramed by Kittredge, it resembled nothing so much as the hard, ball-like knot known as a monkey's fist.

The three coils of cordage in a monkey's fist form in effect a set of Borromean rings in three dimensions.

Similarly, when learning or practicing in the use of a Chinese meteor hammer, each end of the practice weapon is often tied off with a monkey's fist knot.

Once all fish have been hauled up from the sea, tow lines of the fish net is returned by way of thrown both monkey's fists back to the host trawler.

SHEEPSHANK, half hitch, farmer's loop, monkey's fist.

Another variation of the monkey's fist knot omits the use of an internal object as a weight and rather uses the spare end which gets tucked back into the knot.

The tying of a knot may be very straightforward (such as with an overhand knot), or it may be more complicated, such as a monkey's fist knot.

A slungshot is a maritime tool consisting of a weight, or "shot," affixed to the end of a long cord often by being wound into the center of a knot called a "Monkey's fist."

After the ceremony, the guests assembled at the Inn at Longshore in Westport, Conn., where they sat at tables named Dinghy, Galley and Helm and found nautical knots called monkey's fists beside their place settings.

When the bars were not slotted in, breast-high, the slots themselves held small drawers in which were stowed pieces of cloth to be used asbandageswhen in action and short pieces of line, each with a monkey's fist knot the size of a walnut.

It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born.

Marcgravia umbellata, a species of flowering vine referred to as "monkey paws"

App reached into his pocket and drew out a wad of bills clamped by a sterling silver monkey paw.

They used mechanical levers, called monkey paws or sliders, to manipulate the machine's internal works and trigger a payout.

It's just that when I'm playing my guitar my hand moves so fast it looks like a monkey paw, a hairy paw.

Log further clarified the monkey paw myth in an interview with Bizarre Magazine: "I've got all my limbs.

A monkey's fist or monkey paw is a type of knot, so named because it looks somewhat like a small bunched fist/paw.

An early press release from record label Fat Possum claimed Log had a monkey paw grafted on to his wrist after a boating accident as a child.

Early computerized slot machines were sometimes defrauded through the use of cheating devices, such as the "slider" or "monkey paw" used by notorious slot machine cheat Tommy Glenn Carmichael.

Malenfant looked down at his hand, flexed it, turned it over: a monkey paw transmitted to the end of time, a perfect copy... No, if Michael was right, this really was his hand, as if he'd been teleported here.

My sympathy wouldn't save me, however, if I walked out of the bungalow and into the street, tenderly grasped a monkey paw in each of my hands, declared my outrage at the arrogance of the human species, and sang a rousing rendition of "Yes, We Have No Bananas."