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  2. Strangle knot - Wikipedia

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    The strangle knot is a simple binding knot. Similar to the constrictor knot, it also features an overhand knot under a riding turn. A visible difference is that the ends emerge at the outside edges, rather than between the turns as for a constrictor. This knot is a rearranged double overhand knot and makes up each half of the double fisherman's ...

  3. List of climbing knots - Wikipedia

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    Strangle knot: The Strangle knot is a simple binding knot. It forms both sides of a Double fisherman's knot, and is also used to back up loop knots and both ends of bends. Hitches Bachmann knot: The Bachmann knot is useful when the friction hitch needs to be reset quickly/often or made to be self-tending as in crevasse and self-rescue.

  4. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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    The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing animal cruelty.Based in New York City since its inception in 1866, [4] the organization's mission is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States."

  5. Double overhand knot - Wikipedia

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    According to The Ashley Book of Knots, "A double overhand knot tied in a cat-o'-nine-tails is termed a blood knot." [4] When weighted, it can be difficult to untie, especially when wet. [5] [6] The strangle knot is a rearranged double overhand knot made around an object. It is sometimes used to secure items to posts.

  6. List of knots - Wikipedia

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    Barrel knot – joins sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining much of the line's inherent strength; Basket weave knot – a family of bend and lanyard knots with a regular pattern; Becket hitch – any hitch made on an eye loop; Beer knot – bend used in tubular webbing as in slings used in rock climbing

  7. Double fisherman's knot - Wikipedia

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    The double fisherman's knot or grapevine knot is a bend. This knot and the triple fisherman's knot are the variations used most often in climbing , arboriculture , and search and rescue . The knot is formed by tying a double overhand knot , in its strangle knot form, with each end around the opposite line's standing part.

  8. Transom knot - Wikipedia

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    While often described in relation to the constrictor knot, the underlying structure of the transom knot is the strangle knot. [1] [2] The introduction of a second, perpendicular spar into a loose strangle knot tied around another spar will illustrate this point. In relation to the upper spar, the crossings of the knot come to very closely ...

  9. Constrictor knot - Wikipedia

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    First called "constrictor knot" in Clifford Ashley's 1944 work The Ashley Book of Knots, this knot likely dates back much further. [5] Although Ashley seemed to imply that he had invented the constrictor knot over 25 years before publishing The Ashley Book of Knots, [1] research indicates that he was not its only originator, but his Book of Knots does seem to be the source of subsequent ...