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

Rolling Hitch

Sea Terms

A kind of a three-part heaving-line bend. (See engraving.)

Knots — reef knot, figure-of-eight, single bend, carrick bend, sheep-shank, bowline, bowline upon the bight, rolling hitch, marling hitch, timber hitch, clove hitch and half-hitch
Knots — reef knot, figure-of-eight, single bend, carrick bend, sheep-shank, bowline, bowline upon the bight, rolling hitch, marling hitch, timber hitch, clove hitch and half-hitch
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