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wall knot

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

wall knot, a stopper knot on a rope to prevent anything passing beyond it (see illustration overleaf). The rope is unlayed to a distance of four or five times the circumference of the rope and the individual strands tucked over the strand behind and under the strand in front. They are then each tucked again under the two strands in front and brought up to the centre. After each strand is hauled taut they are whipped together close to the knot and the ends cut off. A double wall knot is known as a manrope knot.

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wall knot

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wall knot also wale knot a knot made at the end of a rope by intertwining strands to prevent unraveling or act as a stopper.

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