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Index of Knot Numbers

(The word 'knot' is not included in the entries. Thus 'Decorative shamrock knot' is listed as
'decorative shamrock' but all other entries are listed as named in text: eg 'eye splice', sheet
bend' etc.)
Admiralty eye splice, 47, 48 midshipman's hitch, 21
monkey's fist, 30
back splice, 34
backwall hitch, 22 ocean mat square, 81
binder turn, 9 ocean plait/mat, 46
blood,85 overhand or thumb, 1 ; plait, 4-stranded, 65;
bowline, 15, 27; on bight, 16; French, 91 ; 8-stranded, 66
running, 15; Spanish, 92
bucket hitch, 19 pineapple, 4-stranded, 56
carrick bend, 6, 7 reef, 5
cat's paw, 21 rolling hitch, 18
chain plait, 61 ; double, 62 rope's end, to 'point', 84
chain splice. 39 rope ladder, 25
clove hitch, 17. 18 rose, 4-stranded, 57
cockscombing, 77, 78 round turn, 1
constrictor, 86 Russian mat, 76
continuous crowning, 53 ; walling, 52
crown, 43; plaits, 53; strands, 53 sennits: common, 3-stranded, 67 ; 7 -stranded,
cut splice, 35
68; round six-stranded, 69; square,
8-stranded, 70; English, 7 -stranded, 71 ;
decorative shamrock, 89 French, 7-stranded 72; Portuguese, flat. 74;
diamond, 7 ; hitching, 54; plait, 54; Portuguese spiral, 73; Russian six
4 strands, 54
double crown, 53 stranded, 76; thrum, 79
double diamonds, 54 shamrock, 14; decorative, 89
sheep shank, 13; from Fool's, 12; pinned, 12
double thumb, 2
double wall, 52 sheet bend, 8: double, 8
draw hitch, 23 short splice, 32
shroud, 40
Spanish hitching, 75
eye splice, 31 ; bargee's, 29; middle of rope,
36; single tuck, 38 spindle eye, 80
square, 28
figure of eight, 3; continuous, 4 square plait, 63
fisherman's bend, 19 stage or scaffold hitch, 26
Flemish eye, 37; splice, 49 star, 6-stranded, 55
stopper, 57
grommet (wire), 51
tack, 58
half-hitch,1 thief, 23
half-hitches, two, 1 'threef' 90
heaving line bend, 88 timber hitch, 20
toggle, small bell, 93; large bell, 94
jury masthead, 24, 83 Tom Foors, 10, 11
Turk's head, 45, 60, 84
lighterman's hitch, 27 twist plait, 64
Liverpool eye splice, 48
long splice, 33; wire, 50
untiable, 41
man harness, 11
man rope, 44, 57 waggoners' hitch, 87
mats: carrick, 82; jury, 83; multi-unit layout, wall, to, strands, 52
95; ocean plait/mat, 46 ; ocean square, 81 wall,42
Matthew Walker, single and double, 59 wall and crown, 57; plait, 52, 55