rolling hitch

It is much superior to the rolling hitch for that purpose.

The most common example of the second kind of slip knot is the rolling hitch.

The rolling hitch is designed to resist lengthwise movement for only a single direction of pull.

There are two slightly different hitches commonly known by the name of "rolling hitch".

Though effective for moderate loads, the rolling hitch cannot be depended on to hold fast under all conditions.

A rolling hitch is used to tie the end of each rope to the standing part of the other.

Using stiff and slippery modern fiber ropes, the rolling hitch may be difficult to make hold at all.

This knot is considered to be similar to and a variation of the rolling hitch knot.

"Always worth doing, sir," he explained to Paolo, "just in case the rolling hitch takes it into its head to slip."

It is made by tying a rolling hitch around the standing part after passing around an anchor object.

A rolling hitch, of course," he added airily.

Southwick had supervised the men securing a hawser to the anchor cable using a rolling hitch.

Calling to Maud to cease lowering, I went on deck and made the watch-tackle fast to the mast with a rolling hitch.

For instance, a simple rolling hitch tied around a railing and pulled parallel to the railing might hold up to a certain tension, then start sliding.

Now the top of the forward sling was almost level with the spar joining the two boats and swiftly the four men put on a rolling hitch, using a short piece of heavy rope.

A rolling hitch is not all that simple, the first time: but I only had to show Pedro once, and he did it again and again, laughing with pleasure and asking my pardon for laughing.' '

An early use of the taut-line hitch name is found in Howard W. Riley's 1912 Knots, Hitches, and Splices, although it is shown in the rolling hitch form and suggested for use as a stopper.

The five men seized the spring, a rope of perhaps a quarter of the diameter of the cable, and quickly secured it to the anchor cable with the rolling hitch, Jackson using a length of line to seize the end to the cable.

At the turn of the 19th Century the knot now known as the "rolling hitch" was called the Magnus or Magner's hitch, and the name rolling hitch referred to two round turns and two half hitches.

Since two distinct variations of the rolling hitch are widely referred to by the same name, and Magnus hitch now may refer to a different knot than it used to, the use of Ashley reference numbers for these related hitches can eliminate ambiguity when required.

The adjustable loop forms of the rolling hitch and Magnus hitch, in addition to being called either of those two names, have also come to be known variously as the taut-line hitch, tent-line hitch, rigger's hitch, adjustable hitch, or midshipman's hitch.

Although some sources fail to differentiate by using a separate name, when a rolling hitch or Magnus hitch is tied around the standing part of the rope to form an adjustable loop it is often referred to as a taut-line hitch or one of several other names.

Jackson and Stafford stood by at the rolling hitch, the knot making a bulky lump in the anchor cable which, in the bomb ketch, went over the bow through a fairlead in the bulwark, not through a hawse hole, so that if they were not careful the knot would jam.