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glossary

Armourial Having to do with heraldry, the description, devising, and regulation of coats of arms.
Back The side of the finished knot that, during construction, is behind the parts already passed.
Note, this applies also to passing behind another line.
Bell-rope A decorated hanging handle used to move the clapper of a ship’s bell.
Bight A bend in a piece of line made without crossing one part of the line over itself.
Binding (noun) A rope device for bringing two or more spars or sticks together.
(verb) To bring two sticks or spars together by tightly passing a rope or line around the
objects and knotting them.
Bosal A rawhide noseband used in Mexico for hackamore gentling (training) of a horse.
Braid(ed) (noun) An interlacing weave of yarns forming the basic structure of a rope, line, or cord,
the number of yarns varying from one to six or more (see Chapter 4).
(adjective) The appearance of a braided line.
Braided line A rope, line, or cord that has been braided.
Cable A left-laid line, ten inches or more in circumference, made with three strands, each strand
being a right-laid rope.
Coir The fibre husk surrounding the coconut seed of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), used in
making hard-wearing twine, cords, and line.
Doubling The action of passing the working end of the cord alongside and parallel to a previously
laid cord, thereby forming an expansion of the thickness of each pass from one cord to
two cords.
Exotic cords Cords made with plastic compounds that have been treated further from the raw
polyamide, polyester, polyethylene, or polypropylene to increase their strength.
Fair (verb) A process of pulling a knot into the desired shape, gently and without stressing the
line, to ensure that the final shape is what you intended.
(adjective) The appearance of a finished piece that shows all parts lying alongside each
other neatly, with no gaps, twisted or missing cords, no visible splices, or snags, no
glue-blobs, evenly spaced sections between adjacent crossings, and neatly lined-up
intersections consistent with the knotting.
Fibrillated The result of making shorter lengths of polymer or plastics fibres appear hairier,
resembling natural fibres.
Fibres The individual threads or filaments of which rope, line, and cords are made.
Fid A (usu.) wooden tool used to separate the strands of a rope or line in the activity of
splicing that rope or line to itself or to another. See also Swedish fid.
Flat knot A knot that is created with a woven structure that, when laid on a flat surface, does not
excessively protrude above the general surface of the knot.
Flax The plant (Linum usitatissimum) from which the fibres are extracted and twisted to make a
fine thread, twine, or small line. The thread is most often used to make linen fabric and the
seeds of the plant are crushed to make linseed oil.
Fraying The action of the end of a twisted or braided line that, when released from its confining,
whipping, or sealing, tends to splay out the yarns and threads as to become unruly and
spoiling the lines.