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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

1497. MULTIPLE BENDS of more than two ends are occasionally

called for on nets, tents, awnings, hammock clews, etc. The common

SHEET BEND will provide either three or four ends and the pull may

be either two against two or one against three.

1498. A MULTIPLE RACKING BEND can be formed by seizing a

number of small lines together at the center and Denning a larger

line to them with racking turns.

1499. The BOWLINE may be tied with a bight so that, when the

bight is cut, five ends are available.

14 1500. If bights are to be bent together to furnish a number of

ends, the knot pictured here will be found firmer than similar KNOT

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1501. A MULTIPLE SHEET BEND. If a considerable number of

straddled lines are needed, it is well to serve or ring bolt hitch them

at the center and then to seize in an eye before bending to it with a

MULTIPLE SWEET Bnm.

1502. The JOSEPHINE KNOT. When used in decorative needle\\!ork

with four working ends, the CARRICK BEND bears this name. A loop

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is made in the center of one thread and the end of the other thread

is sewed through the first one with a needle.

1503. A MULTIPLE FIGURE-EIGHT KNOT appears to be a practical

and compact means for bending several ends together.

IS 01 ,$'02.,- 1504. For hammock clews a number of small lines are often

secured to a metal ring with a series of RING HITCHES.

1505. If lines are to be pulled not too widely apart the DIAMOND

KNOT, elsewhere described as '#693, will be found quite practical.

1506. Snap hooks to clews and metal rings are often employed at

sea.

IS 03 IS'OS 1507. The device pictured here is given in Diderot's Encyclopedia.

It is the hoist rope of a pile driver which was worked wholly by

man power. An individual line is provided for each man.

At sea, BOWLINE BRIDLES are similarly constructed, having three

or four legs.

1508. An expeditious way of bending several lines at a common

point is to first form a M UL rIPLE PORTUGUESE BOWLINE in one rope's

end, and then secure the others to the bights of this with ordinary

BOWLINE KNOTS.

1509. Several ends interlocked with either BOWLINE KNOTS or EYE

SPLICES may be rove together as pictured and will be as secure

as it is possible for rope to be.

1510. CRow's-FEET. The edges of awnings on shipboard were

stretched with euphroe blocks and so also were catharpins. The web

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so formed was termed a CRow's-FooT. The standing ends of running

rigging in the seventeenth century were secured in similar manner

to the top ends of fore and aft stays.

1511. A multiplicity of small lines are sometimes toggled or fidded

to a spliced eye in a larger rope.