bow-line

Declared out of bounds to ordinary people, the bow-line of sand became a slowly shifting northern desert.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Dogs, do you pretend to play a sailor, and not know the bridle of the bow-line, and the saddle of the boltsprit, and the bit for the cable, and the girth to hoist the rigging, and the whip to serve for small tackle? —

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

They taught me to sing their songs as they hauled on their ropes, and I recall, as if I had learned it yesterday, one pleasing ditty: Haul on the bow-line, Kitty is my darling, Haul on the bow-line, The bow-line -- HAUL!

The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

The one-ringed circus was packed with every grade of society from gaping Spanish laborers to haughty wives of dirt-train conductors, among whom it was not hard to distinguish in a far corner the uniformed sergeant in command of Gatun and the long lean corporal tied in a bow-line knot at the alleged wit of the versatile but solitary clown who changed his tongue every other moment from English to Spanish.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

Bruce sprang to the stern of the third barge and dragged the loose bow-line from the water.

The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

We can go up the Danube to Vienna, up the Thames to London, and we can go up the Seine to Paris and moor opposite the Latin Quarter with a bow-line out to Notre Dame and a stern-line fast to the Morgue.

Chapter 1 -- Foreword 1913

His bow-line was fast to an iron ring on the wharf.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Seine to Paris and moor opposite the Latin Quarter with a bow-line out to Notre Dame and a stern-line fast to the Morgue.

Chapter 1 1911

I used the running bow-line, and a couple of clove hitches.

The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. Lilian Garis 1913

"Loops" are made as shown in Figs. 62-65, but none of these are as safe, sure, and useful as the bow-line.

Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise 1912