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Glossary of Terms

age of sail: The time period before coxcombing: A continuous set of
steam engines, when ships large hitching of one or more strands to
and small used mainly wind for cover an object, usually bar-shaped.
locomotion.
crossing knot: A knot made by one
belay: To secure a rope to an rope around another at the point
anchoring point; in rock climbing, to where it crosses it, then continuing
secure your position. past it.
bend: A knot for joining two ropes crossing turn: A circle made of rope
together at their ends. where the bases cross each other.

bight: A section of the rope often double: To use two cords instead of
pulled to a tight curve to become one, laid parallel to each other.
part of a knot.
eye: A closed loop in rope, whether
bind: To seize, lash, or otherwise trap it is spliced, seized, or knotted.
an object and its components.
fibers: The smallest threadlike com-
braid: The interweaving of multiple
strands. ponents or cordage.
fid: A cylinder that is tapered to a
cable-laid rope: Three three-strand
ropes twisted together to form a point at one end, used for sepa-
larger twisted rope. rating the lay of twisted rope when
splicing.
capsized knot: A knot that under-
went a change of form due to strain, fixed loop: Also called a “locked
usually when a curved part loop,” a fixed loop is a type of loop
straightens, causing the shape of knot that does not allow the loop to
other components of the knot to change size, either by pulling on the
change. standing part or the running end.
coil: A rope that has been collected frapping turn: A wrap made across
into a stack of crossing turns and the middle of a set of turns already
(usually) secured with a knot, for made for a lashing, used to tighten
storage. and secure them.
cordage: A general term referring to frayed: Unraveled, usually referring
ropes and twines. to the tip of a rope.

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