becket bend
- noun
- /ˈbɛkɪt bɛnd/
- Specialized
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nudo de becket
- The becket bend is a reliable knot when you need to attach a new rope to a loop.
Examples
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Sailors often rely on the becket bend for temporary tie-downs on deck.
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The sailor demonstrated how to make a becket bend.
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Before lifting the load, he secured the rope using a becket bend.
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He tied the rope using a becket bend.
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Before lifting the load, he secured the rope using a becket bend.
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Sailors often rely on the becket bend for temporary tie-downs on deck.
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The becket bend is a reliable knot for joining two ropes in lifting applications.
Synonyms
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8.4
A knot used to join one rope to another, even when they are different thicknesses
A knot for tying one rope temporarily to the middle of another rope or to a loop
To tie one rope or thread temporarily to the middle of another rope to join them
Surface Forms
Morphology
becket + bend
This is a specialized nautical term: the sense of 'becket' is rare and 'bend' here uses a technical knot sense that most B1 learners do not know (they know 'bend' as a curve). Because the idiomatic, domain-specific meaning of the compound relies on specialist senses rather than ordinary compositional meanings, a B1 learner who only knows common senses of the parts would not be able to derive the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Becket bend comes from old rope work: a becket was a small 'loop' or 'eye' on a rope, and a bend was a knot used to join two lines. So the becket bend is the knot used to attach a rope to that 'loop', which is why it means 'a knot used to tie a rope to the middle of another rope or to an eye' today.