Page 214 - The Ashley Book of Knots

THE NOOSE

1122. The NEWGATE KNOT is given by Gibson. It is differently tied

from jIjf I I2 I, but it is exactly the same knot when drawn up in final

fOIlIl. Both are THREE-FoLD OVERHAND KNOTS with the standing

~nd rove back through the knot.

1123. The IcHABOD KNOT was shown to me by the attendant at the

old Newcastle jail in Delaware. It appears to be an adequate knot

for its purpose. A very similar knot was shown to me in near-by

Wilmington, Delaware, for tying up a cow (jIjf 1828).

1124. The GIBBET KNOT was first shown to me by Captain George Il2.2. 1123

H. Grant, of Nantucket, and later the same knot was shown to me

by Ole Jackson.

1125. A decorative NOOSE which superficially resembles a

MATTHEW WALKER KNOT.

1126. A DOUBLE RING or TAG KNOT, also called DOUBLE RUNNING

KNOT, is used by lobster- and crab men around their pots. As it has

no ends, its security is never in question. It is an exceedingly practical

knot that is commonly tied in hand.

1127. The LARIAT or LASSO NOOSE is made by reeving the end of

the lariat through a HONDA KNOT. The latter knot is based on the

BoWSTRING KNOT and is described in the chapter on single loops ,,24 1125

(~I024)' The HONDA differs from the BOWSTRING KNOT in having a

single OVERHAND KNOT in the end of the rope. To tie, first make an

OVERHAND KNOT in the bight and then reeve the end through it,

after which the knot in the end is added.

1128. A four-strand lariat often has a HONDA that is formed by

reeving the end of the rope between the strands of the standing part.

An OVERHAND (jIjf 5 15), WALL (jljf67 I), or (less frequently) a

MATTHEW WALKER KNOT (jljf682) is put in the end. The opened

strands are seized close to the knot. The end of the rope is also

whipped. The MATTHEW WALKER KNOT is said to be common in
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Mexico.

1129. One of the most common HONDAS consists of a copper

riveted eye with the bosom served over with heavy copper wire.

A description is given in Chapter 35, which deals with EYE SPLICES.

1130. The INSIDE CLINCH consists of one or two seized round turns

in the end of a rope. The rope is rove through the turns. The turns

are held t<:>gether with either two or three round seizings. The clinch

is tied in hawsers and cables that are too large for easy knotting, but

it is also tied in buntlines and leech lines, and is used for the latter

purpose in preference to hitches, since the seizings are less liable to

be loosened by continual slatting of the sail. The buntline is first rove

through the cringle in the boltrope and then through the turns of , I 2.,

the clinch.
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1131. The OUTSIDE CLINCH is not 60 secure and is employed wher-

ever it is necessary to cast off smartly, which is done by cutting the

seizing. The size of a clinch must always be less than the size of

the ring or cringle to which it is secured.

1132. The THIMBLE AND EYE is the neatest of NOOSES. Nowadays

it is often tied in wire, sometimes with a bull's-eye instead of a

thimble, as in cargo slings.

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