Sheepshank

The next day, we all commenced in earnest our studies in navigation and seamanship, the naval instructor with his assistants working us up in our mathematics and imparting to us the elements of plane and spherical trigonometry; while the boatswain and his mates gave us practical lessons in the setting up of rigging and making of knots, so that there should be no chance of our mistaking a "sheepshank" for a "cat's paw," or a "Flemish eye" for a "grommet!" ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)

Stupified as I was, some instinct must have told me not to refuse Gallantin's invitation a second time-it's a good rule, as I hope I've demonstrated, that when scalp-hunters offer you a squaw, you should take her away quick and quiet, and if you don't fancy her, then teach her the two times table, or "Tintern Abbey", or how to tie a sheepshank. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

Is there anything we can do to keep my illustrations with his stories? sheepshank ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although, I'd classify Thom as a good drawer of ugly people. sheepshank ❋ Unknown (2008)

Moeller gulped the last of his milk and rose, just in time to have a bubble of gas twist his intestine like a sailor knotting a sheepshank. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Oaxyctl concentrated on joining two lines together with a sheepshank knot. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Oaxyctl held up the bight of a line, the loop flopping over, and tied a sheepshank. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Oaxyctl pulled the knot apart and demonstrated the bowline, the sheepshank, a simple square knot, and a sheet bend. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Figs. 81-82 illustrate two other forms of shortenings, but these can only be used where the end of the rope is free, and are intended for more permanent fastenings than the ordinary sheepshank; while Fig. 83 is particularly adapted to be cast loose at a moment's notice by jerking out the toggles, _A_, _B_. ❋ Unknown (1912)

“I doubt na, frien’, ye’ll think ye’re nae sheepshank, 90 ❋ Unknown (1909)

Rupert Murdoch's daughter-in-law in TV blunder sheepshank ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whether it's a simple overhand knot or the more complicated sheepshank knot, someday you're going to need one of these. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two Spuds wrapped his lariat three times around Eli’s torso and the travois poles and tied it with a sheepshank knot to make sure the man didn’t slip off the pony drag. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)

It was an old habit—when he had a problem he couldn’t untangle, he would grab a worn-out strip of lariat and tie everything from a sheepshank to a hangman’s knot while he thought it through. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)