I would greatly welcome any correction to my incorrect terminology.
The main point that you should "get" from this discussion is that knotting
terminology is confused, inconsistent, contradictory, and varied per person
or locale or application. Efforts here are to try to move beyond that. In
the thread I started I hope (still) to have extant definitions AND USES TO
ILLUSTRATE ... put forward for examination. (And I fear that in this thread
there is too much hurry to move forwards (or sideways) in ignorance of
what has gone before.)
E.g., this whole zeal to call end-2-end joints "bends" is an Ashley-adoration
run amuck; as CLDay remarks, the case isn't there, in actual usage (ends
were equally if not more so "bent" to objects, e.g. an anchor bend). As
I was just saying, ... .
We are sure of "bight" as a spelling, if less sure of its meaning.
Now, excuse me as there are some salty
Knots in the Wild to go
observe & photo-record (or collect!) -- south end of New Jersey again.
(Oh, and some snow-broken-down cedar branches & tops to cut.)
--dl*
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