List of Knots - B

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• Bachmann knot - friction hitch useful when the knot needs to be reset quickly/often
• Bag knot (miller's knot) - binding knot used to secure the opening of a sack or bag
• Bait loop (bumper knot) - secures soft or loose bait in fishing
• Bale sling hitch - continuous loop of strap to form a cow hitch around an object
• Barrel hitch (barrel sling) - suspends an object
• Barrel knot (blood knot) - joins sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining much of the line's inherent strength
• Barrel sling (barrel hitch) - suspends an object
• Becket hitch - any hitch made on an eye loop
• Beer knot - bend used in tubular webbing as in slings used in rock climbing
• Bimini twist - fishing knot used for offshore trolling and sportsfishing
• Blackwall hitch - temporary means of attaching a rope to a hook
• Blake's hitch - friction hitch commonly used by arborists and tree climbers as an ascending knot
• Blood knot (barrel knot) - joins sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining much of the line's inherent strength
• Blood loop knot (dropper loop) - forms a loop which is off to the side of the line
• Boa knot - binding knot
• Boom hitch - attach a line to a fixed object like a pipe
• Bottle sling (jug sling) - used to create a handle for a container with a narrow tapering neck
• Bowen knot (heraldic knot) - not a true knot (an unknot), a continuous loop of rope laid out as an upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners
• Bowline - forms a fixed loop at the end of a rope
• Bowline on a bight - makes a pair of fixed-size loops in the middle of a rope
• Bumper knot - secures soft or loose bait in fishing
• Buntline hitch - attach a rope to an object
• Butterfly bend - connects two ends of rope
• Butterfly loop (alpine butterfly) - forms a fixed loop in the middle of a rope