Knot construction and behaviour
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Knot construction and behaviour
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- Threaded
- Rethreaded, follow-through
- Bight, on a bight, mid-rope knot
- Turn ("wrap" in USA)
- Loop (knot), loop knot, eye, knot loop
- Bunny ears
- Cross loading, ring loading, transverse loading
- Noose, slip knot, slipping knot (sometimes "cinch knot" in USA)
- Slipped knot, slippery knot
- Hitch
- Friction hitch, prusik knot (general term, sometimes "knots" in USA)
- Bend
- Binding knot
- Coil, sinnet, sennit, hank
- Flake
- Dressing (a knot)
- Setting (a knot), tightening ("cinching" in USA)
- Capsize, collapse, spill
- Tail (of a knot), free end (of a knot), standing end (of a knot)
- Breaking (a knot), working (a knot)
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