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Becket Bend

Definition: Becket Bend

Becket Bend

Noun

1. A hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Becket Bend

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A type of double hitch made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, around both parts of the other, and under its own part. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Becket Bend

Synonyms: sheet bend (n), weaver's hitch (n), weaver's knot (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Becket Bend

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

becket bend it like

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Modern Translations: Becket Bend

Language Translations for "becket bend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

væverknob (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

weversknoop (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), vissersknoop (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), schootsteek (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), enkele schootsteek (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

verkonkutojan solmu (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

   

French

  

noeud simple (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend), noeud de tisserand (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend), noeud d'écoute (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend). (various references)

   

German

  

Weberknoten (reef knot, sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), Schotstek (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), Schotenstek (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), Fischerknoten (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), einfacher Schotenstek (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ποδόδεσμος (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), απλός κόμπος (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nodo semplice (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecketbay endbay

   

Portuguese

  

nó simples (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), nó de escota (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nudo de tejedor (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), nudo de escota (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

enkelt skotstek (sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Becket Bend

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-c-d-e-e-e-k-n-t"

-4 letters: becked, becket, bedeck, bendee, decent, keened, ketene, necked.

-5 letters: ebbed, ebbet, kneed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Becket Bend


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 63 6B 65 74      42 65 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000010 01100101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#66 &#101 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0063 006B 0065 0074      0042 0065 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367169777186236718070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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