Portuguese
nó de escota A hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
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Tie four of the following knots: Reef, sheet bend, clove hitch, bowline, middleman's, fisherman's, sheep-shank.
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Then on to the more complicated rolling hitch, the fisherman's hitch, the sheepshank, the sheet bend, the sailors' knot, and the beautiful Turk's head.
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With a swift weaver's knot John Best mended the flying yarn.
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Then there would come a flash of his hands as he looped the weaver's knot and released the bobbin.