knots

• knots - a connection in a cord or length of rope that has been formed in one of two ways.
• stopper knots - a kind of knot that prevents the ends of a rope from fraying. also stop the rope from being pulled through a pulley block.
• shortening knots - used to form nooses and loops. shorten a length of rope instead of cutting
• binding knots - can confine and constrict a single object or length of rope. can be use to hold closely together 2 or more objects of ropes.
• hitches - are used to tie a rope around an object like a pole.
• Bend knots

  
• loop knot

  
• reef knot

  
• Round turn and two half-hitches

  
• sheet bend

  
• Bowline Knot

  
• taut line hitch

  
• constrictor knot

  
• transom knot

  
• pile hitch

  
• slip knot

  
• Fisherman's knot

  
• clover hitch

  
• cow hitch

  
• carrick bend

  
• sheep shank

  
• timber hitch

  
• granny knot

  
• surgeon's knot

  
• overhand knot/loop

  
• eight knot

  
• pole lashing