becket bend


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Related to becket bend: square knot, bowline knot, clove hitch

becket bend

n
(Knots) another name for sheet bend
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.becket bend - a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)becket bend - a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
sheet bend, weaver's hitch, weaver's knot
hitch - a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
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Attach the free end of the swing ropes to the beckets that are in the seat rope slings with a becket bend (see illustration: Knots).
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