Fact of the Day : How would one tie a timber hitch? (from The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea)"timber hitch," a method of securing a rope round a spar. The rope's standing part is taken round the spar with a half hitch round itself, and the end is then tucked three or four times round its own part. This forms a running, but self-jamming, eye.Timber hitch
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"timber hitch" The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. Ed. I. C. B. Dear and Peter Kemp. Oxford University Press, 2007. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 21 September 2011
