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Pocket Guide to Knots & Splices
Palm A glove-like leather strap fitted with
a metal plate. This is worn on the hand
and used to push heavy needles through
rope or canvas.
Rigger One who works on the rigging of
ships.
Rigging The ropes both fixed and moving
on a ship.
Seize To join two ropes or parts of ropes
together with a binding of small
cordage.
Sheath The woven cover of a braided
rope.
Sheet A rope that controls the sails of a
ship.
Shock Gord A rope with a core of rubber
and a braided nylon sheath This gives a
high degree of stretch, also known as
elasticated cord or bungy cord.
Sling A continuous circle of rope or tape
either premade or made by joining the
ends of a short piece of rope with a fish¬
erman’s knot or water knot.
Small Stuff A general term to cover any
type of small cordage.
Spar A wood or metal pole.
Spike A general term for any pointed rope
working tool, be it an awl, fid, marline-
spike, pricker or Swedish fid.
Standing Part That part of the rope not
immediately being used in the tying of
a knot.
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Standing Rigging The rigging of a ship
that does not move.
Strand One of the larger parts of a rope.
Strop Another word for sling.
Swedish Fid A tool with a hollow, point¬
ed end and wood handle, useful for
splicing rope and working decorative
knots tight. So called, as this tool was
first patented in Sweden in 1949.
Tape A flat woven webbing sometimes of
a tubular construction, used by climbers
to make slings.
Three-Strand Rope A rope made from
three strands twisted together.
Tuck To pass one part of a rope under
another.
Turn The passing of a rope around one
side of an object.
Twine Small softly twisted cordage of less
than an eighth of an inch in diameter.
Unlay The act of untwisting or taking
apart the strands of a rope.
Whipping A permanent finish to the end
of a piece of rope made with very fine
twine.
Working End The end of the rope used
during the tying of the knot.
Yarn Natural or synthetic fibers twisted
together as thread.