sheet bend

English

Sheet bend. The green rope represents the rope with a smaller diameter.

Noun

sheet bend (plural sheet bends)

1. A type of knot that can be used to join two ropes of different diameters.

Synonyms

• becket bend
• weaver's knot
• weaver's hitch

Related terms

• double sheet bend

Translations

knot

• Danish: enkelt flagknob n
• Finnish: jalussolmu (fi)
• French: nœud d’écoute (fr) m, nœud de tisserand m
• German: Schotstek m
• Hebrew: רֶכֶס מֵיתָר (he) m (rekhes meytar)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̑ставнӣк m

  Roman: zȃstavnīk (sh) m (literally “flag-bearer”)

• Spanish: vuelta de escota f
• Swedish: skotstek c