Knots, Splices and Rope Work / A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.

by A. Hyatt Verrill

It consists simply of a number of half-hitches taken at intervals around the object and is sometimes used with a lever or handspike, as shown in Fig. 47.

The "Rolling Hitch" is a modified Clove hitch and is shown in Fig. 48.

The "Magnus Hitch" (Fig. 49) is a method frequently used on shipboard for holding spars;

and the "Studding-sail Bend" (Fig. 50) is also used for this purpose.

Occasions sometimes arise where a tackle, hook, ring, or another rope must be fastened to a beam by the same rope being used, and in such cases the "Roband Hitch" (Fig. 51) comes in very handy.