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Backwall hitch: a simple, quick and efficient method for attaching the tail of a rope to a hook. It relies
upon a constant strain being maintained, but it will slip unless the knot is held in position while the
strain is taken up (figure 3).
Bare end see bitter end.
Bargee’s eye splice: perhaps this is the simplest of splices, providing a rough and ready yet quite
effective eye (figure 4.1), with the end of the rope tucked once through a single strand of the standing
part (figure 4.2).
Barrel knot see blood knot.
Becket bend see sheet bend.
Belaying: the method by which ropes are made fast on board ship and from ship to shore, by winding
the rope under load in a figure-of-eight pattern around a fixture.
Belaying a rope with a cleat, or cleating, requires three or four cross turns of the rope, which passes
under the horns of the cleat, crosses above the cleat (figures 5.1 and 5.2) and finishes with a half
