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Knots, Splices and Rope Work / A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc. — A. Hyatt Verrill

Knots, Splices and Rope Work / A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.

A. Hyatt Verrill

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  • Book language: English
  • 52 pages

A practical manual on knots, bends, hitches, splices and rope work, with clear directions and many diagrams showing how each knot or splice is formed and how it looks when finished. Written for travellers, campers, yachtsmen, scouts and anyone else who handles rope. It is a useful, hands-on guide to a craft that rewards practice.

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Transcriber's

Notes:

Corrected spellings

'casualities' to 'casualties'

'Midshipmen's hitch' to 'Midshipman's hitch'

Illustration for Timber Hitch is Fig. 38, not Fig.

32

There is no Fig. 134.

KNOTS, SPLICES and ROPE

WORK

A PRACTICAL TREATISE

Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most

Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on

Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc. Adapted for the Use of

Travellers, Campers, Yachtsmen, Boy Scouts, and All Others Having to

Use or Handle Ropes for Any Purpose.

By

A. HYATT VERRILL

Editor Popular Science Dept., "American Boy Magazine."

SECOND REVISED EDITION

Illustrated with 156 Original Cuts Showing How

Each Knot, Tie or Splice is Formed and Its

Appearance When Complete.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

CORDAGE

Kinds of Rope. Construction of Rope. Strength of Ropes. Weight of

Ropes. Material Used in Making Ropes.

CHAPTER II

SIMPLE KNOTS AND BENDS

Parts of Rope. Whipping and Seizing Rope. Loops. Cuckolds' Necks.

Clinches. Overhand and Figure-eight Knots. Square and Reef Knots.

Granny Knots. Open-hand and Fishermen's Knots. Ordinary Knots and

Weavers' Knots. Garrick Bends and Hawser Hitches. Half-hitches.

CHAPTER III

TIES AND HITCHES

Larks' Heads. Slippery and Half-hitches. Clove Hitches. Gunners' Knots

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Contents

  1. KNOTS, SPLICES and ROPE WORK
  2. A PRACTICAL TREATISE
  3. A. HYATT VERRILL
  4. CONTENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER I
  7. CHAPTER II
  8. CHAPTER III
  9. CHAPTER IV
  10. CHAPTER V
  11. CHAPTER VI
  12. CHAPTER VII
  13. INDEX
  14. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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