Lever-hitch ([Fig. 121]).—For drawing pickets, fixing rounds of rope-ladder, bars to, or loops on, drag-ropes.
Man's Harness-Hitch (also [Fig. 121]).—Loop to pass over shoulder. To fix a rope with a weight on it rapidly to a block.
Fig. 122.
Fig. 123.
Cat's-paw ([Fig. 122]).—At the end or in the middle of a rope for hooking on a block.
Blackwall Hitch ([Fig. 123]).—Simple hitch with pliable rope and fixed weight. Used to transfer the strain from one rope to another, or to secure a tackle to a rope for a horizontal pull.
Stopper Hitch ([Fig. 124]).—To shift the strain off a rope temporarily.