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- From: jemorti@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Jack Mortimer - K31)
- Subject: Re: Joining Ropes (was Re: Hangmans noose)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.134400.1040@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
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- References: <BzopoF.Js8@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU> <1992Dec23.214546.11938@mlb.semi.harris.com> <KMEYER.93Jan6125218@solarium.aero.org> <C0KAvD.Ir7@dircon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:44:00 GMT
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- In article <C0KAvD.Ir7@dircon.co.uk>, uab1018@dircon.co.uk (Frank Leonhardt) writes:
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- |> >A knot refers to any interlacement of one or more pieces of rope, and
- |> >include bends and hitches (according to Webster's 9th).
- |>
- |> A knot is something you use instead of a splice if you don't
- |> have time to do a proper job (or don't know how to splice) :-)
- |>
- |> --
- |> --- Frank J Leonhardt -- uab1018@dircon.UUCP -- leo2@cix.compulink.co.uk -
- |> ------ London, England Tel: ++44 81 429 3047, Fax: ++44 81 868 3754 ------
- Frank, You have gotten me curious. What splice should I use in place of
- a taught line hitch?
- Jack Mortimer
- jemorti@relay.nswc.navy.mil
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