reef knot

English

A reef knot

Noun

reef knot (plural reef knots)

1. A knot used to securely tie two pieces of rope together, or to reef sails.

Synonyms

• square knot

Translations

type of knot

• Bulgarian: рифов възел m (rifov vǎzel)
• Catalan: nus pla m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平結／平结 (zh) (píngjié)

• Czech: ambulanční uzel m, ambulanční spojka f, plochá spojka f, ambulák m
• Danish: råbåndsknob n
• Dutch: platte knoop m
• Finnish: merimiessolmu, reivisolmu
• French: nœud plat (fr) m
• German: Kreuzknoten m
• Hebrew: ַקֶשֶׁר שָׁטוּח (he) m (kesher shatuakh)
• Irish: snaidhm chúrsála f
• Norman: pliat noeud m
• Russian: прямо́й у́зел m (prjamój úzel)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мушки чвор, амбулантни чвор

  Roman: muški čvor (literally “male knot”), ambulantni čvor (literally “ambulatory knot”)

• Swedish: råbandsknop (sv) c

See also

• granny knot
• reef knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• forekent