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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

BEND Generic name for those knots that bind (or bend) two separate ropes

together.

BIGHT Any slack section of a line when it forms a partial loop.

BREAKING STRENGTH A manufacturer’s calculation or estimate, expressed

in kilograms or tonnes, of the load a rope will sustain before failing. It takes no
account of factors (such as wear and tear, knots) that may drastically reduce this
figure. (See also Safe Working Load).

CABLE Three right-handed hawser-laid ropes laid up left-handed into a nine-

strand rope; or, more generally, any large rope.

CORD Smaller cordage under ⅜ in (10 mm) diameter

CORE Yarns laid or braided to create a heart within braided cordage that is

either inert or contributes a degree of strength, elasticity or some other quality to
the line

DACRON (See Terylene)

DOG To contrive a temporary running eye in the working end of a line by

wrapping the working end around its own standing part.

EFFICIENCY A very approximate estimation of a knot’s strength, expressed as
a percentage of the theoretical breaking strength of the unknotted rope in which

it is tied.

ELBOW Two acute crossing points created in a loop or between any two knot
parts.

EYE A small round loop.