A lashing stick is used to safely tighten a lashing knot, and consists of a rope wrapped around foot-long spar in a half-hitch.
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“He took him down below a cramping rafter,
And showed him, through a manhole in the floor,
The water in desperate straits like frantic fish,
Salmon and sturgeon, lashing with their tails.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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