wall knot — noun : an overhand or double knot that is crowned or double crowned and made by interweaving the unlaid strands at the end of a rope * * * wall knot or (properly) wale knot noun A nautical method of tying the strands at the end of a rope • • •… … Useful english dictionary
wall knot — noun another term for wale knot … English new terms dictionary
wall-knot — … Useful english dictionary
Wall — Wall, n. (Naut.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. [1913 Webster] {Wall knot}, a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
wall a rope — To make a wall knot on the end of a rope • • • Main Entry: ↑wall … Useful english dictionary
wall — n. & v. n. 1 a a continuous and usu. vertical structure of usu. brick or stone, having little width in proportion to its length and height and esp. enclosing, protecting, or dividing a space or supporting a roof. b the surface of a wall, esp.… … Useful english dictionary
knot — Synonyms and related words: Blackwall hitch, Chinese puzzle, Flemish knot, French shroud knot, German knot, Gordian knot, Matthew Walker knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, Windsor knot, accouple, accumulate, adhesive, affix, affixation, agglutinate … Moby Thesaurus
wall and crown — noun : a single wall knot with a crown … Useful english dictionary
Knot theory — A three dimensional depiction of a thickened trefoil knot, the simplest non trivial knot … Wikipedia
wall — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. side, partition, bulkhead, flange, splashboard; rampart, defense; barrier; fence; cliff, precipice; levee, dike, seawall; (pl.) prison. See enclosure, hindrance, vertical, circumscription. II (Roget s … English dictionary for students
