| Less satisfying is the sensation of having a hundred Belgian eyes on you while you try to remember the difference between a sheepshank and a half-hitch. |
| The sheepshank knot serves to shorten a rope without cutting it, and may be presently loosened. |
| Less well-known are cat's paw, crabber's eye, Turk's head, sheepshank, halliard hitch, carrick bend and granny knots. |
| To do that would require a knot like the sheepshank, which he knew not how to do. |
