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A commonly used knot to tie a loop in the end of a rope. It has the advantage
of not jamming, compared to some other loop forming knots (for example
when using an overhand knot on a large bight to form a loop).
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Form a small loop (the direction is important), and pass the free end of
the knot up through the loop, around behind the standing part of the rope,
and back down through the loop.
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A chant used by many to remember this knot is "The rabbit comes out of
the hole, round the tree, and back down the hole again", where the hole
is the small loop, and the rabbit is the running end of the rope.
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In the same way that a Left Handed
Sheet bend is a Sheet bend that has the
running end of the rope coming out of the wrong side of the knot, a cowboy
bowline is a bowline that also has the running end of the rope coming out
of the wrong side of the knot. It suffers the same problems as the left
handed sheet bend.
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