The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Lark's Head

Sea Terms

A knot made by doubling the bight of a rope, passing it around a spar, or through a ring or hook about a foot, then bending it down towards you and spreading it out, and slipping a toggle through the four parts--across the two outer and under the two inner. To finish with take a half hitch around the standing part with the loose end hanging down so that it will not slip when a strain is put on it. (See engraving.)

Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
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