Becket
A becket block has a loop or eye to which a line can be attached.
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Becket
A short piece of rope intended to hold something.
Before the Mast ...
Becket Small rope circle, a simple eye.
Belay To make a rope fast to a belaying pin or cleat.
Bend Knot of various kinds.
becket - A loop at the end of a line.
bend - A type of knot used to connect a line to a spar or another line. Also the act of using such a knot.
becket - A rope handle; An eye or loop in the end of a rope. A piece of rope used to confine or secure spars, ropes, or tackles. Generally an eye is at one end ; sometimes an eye at either end; or a knot at one end and an eye at the other.
Becket:
A loop or a small eye in the end of a rope or a block.
Bedlam:
The word originated from the name of a London mental hospital, St. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital, where the Royal Navy would discharge men for treatment of mental illness.
Becket - A loop or eye made in the end of a rope or wire
Below - Inside a boat
Berth - A place to sleep in a boat or a place to make fast a boat ...
becket: a loop, eye or grommet; the eye in the strap of a block to which a line can be attached. belay: make a line fast to make secure to secure a line, usually to a cleat. bend on: tie or fasten.
Becket - A loop or a small eye in the end of a rope or a block.
Bee - A ring or hoop of metal.
Bee Blocks - Wooden swells on each side of the after end of a boom, having sheaves through which to lead the leech reefing pendants.
Beckets- Short ropes used in several parts of a ship, to confine large ropes, or to hang up the weather sheets and lee tacks of "the main and fore-sail to the foremost main and fore " shrouds.
BECKETS - A loop or rope with a knot on one end and eye at the other used for confining ropes, tackle, oars, spars etc.
BELAY - To make fast the end of a rope temporarily by turning it round a cleat.
BELOW - Beneath the deck.
shell is called the swallow, that between the bottom of the sheave and the shell is called the breech, and the device attached to the bottom of the block opposite the hook for securing the standing part of the fall to the block is called the becket.
A becket block has a fixed eye as well as one or more sheaves. A bullet block is very small. A cheek block is always open on one side. A turning block redirects a line. A foot block is a turning block lying on its side on the deck.
Sheet Bend (also known as Becket Bend): Used to join two lines of two different sizes together, this knot is easy to untie after being under load.
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 See also: Hull, Rope, Boat, Point, Secure
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