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What is a bowline?

What is a bowline? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) a knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope; it will not slip or jam
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The weaver's knot bears a close relationship to the bowline knot, as a careful study of both knots will show.
Pete finally settled on an arrangement that he was happy with, consisting of a butterfly and a long loop leading to a bowline on the bight.
While the braver souls dodged traffic to retrieve gear, I scrounged pieces of rope from the trunk, joined them with sheet bends, and tied a bowline loop in one end.
Participants must know the stunsail tack bend and bowline knots before coming to this lesson.
Tie a bowline or a similar loop in the line which will be used for a 4:1 purchase of the side tensioning lines.
She grabbed him and yanked him unceremoniously into the boat, and untied the bowline herself.

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