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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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