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Index
S thread, 1, 17, 42
scaffold knot, 50–51 timber hitch, 39
security, 13, 15, 23, 30, 39, 46, 55, tips, tying, xiii
56, 57, 69, 94, 95, 104, 112 transom knot, 32–33
sheepshank knot, 112 triple bowline, 58–59
sheet bend, 14 trucker’s hitch, 34–35
shock loading, 3, 18, 88 true lover’s knot, xii, 89
silk, 1 twine, xi, 1, 3, 92, 116, 117
simple noose, 19 two half hitches, 23
sinnet, simple chain, 124–25
slipknot, 19 V
Spanish bowline, 106–8 vice versa, 46–47
splicing, 30, 114–15
square (reef) knot, 13 W
stationary hitches, camping, 22–33 water knot, 92–93
string, xi, 1, 18, 53 waterman’s knot, 89
synthetic fibers, 1, 2, 3, 12, 19, 33, whipping, 113, 114, 115, 116–17
44, 90, 93, 113, 116 wool, 1
T Z
tautline hitch, 36–37 zeppelin bend, 48–49
terminology, x–xi
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