Abacá fiber was once used primarily for rope, but this application is now of minor significance.

** Abacá ( A banana, producing " manila " rope from leaves )

Abacá ( ; from Spanish " abacá " for Musa textilis ), Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Abacá is vulnerable to a number of pathogens, notably abaca bunchy top virus and abaca bract mosaic virus.

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Abacá was the main ingredient in ropes and other products prior to the invention of nylon.

The vessel is attached to the anchor by the rode, which is made of chain, cable, rope, or a combination of these.

A cable or rode is the rope, chain, or combination thereof used to connect the anchor to the vessel.

Bouldering is a style of rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to very short climbs over a crash pad ( called a bouldering mat ) so that a fall will not result in serious injury.

Usually, instead of using a safety rope from above, injury is avoided using a crash pad and a human spotter ( to direct a falling climber on to the pad ).

It is thought of as the anchor of Tama-rereti's waka ( the Milky Way ), while the Pointers are its rope.

Crossbow bolts can be fitted with a variety of heads, some with sickle-shaped heads to cut rope or rigging ; but the most common today is a four-sided point called a quarrel.

For an object swinging around on the end of a rope in a horizontal plane, the centripetal force on the object is supplied by the tension of the rope.

The rope example is an example involving a ' pull ' force.

It is possible that a previous climber had top-roped the Arch leaving the rope scars. keturah

The tensioning system is usually rope, but bolt systems and turnbuckles have been used as well.

Using two pegs and a rope, this procedure is traditionally used by gardeners to outline an elliptical flower bed ; thus it is called the gardener's ellipse.

Baudhayana ( c. 8th century BCE ) composed the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, the best-known Sulba Sutra, which contains examples of simple Pythagorean triples, such as:,,,, and as well as a statement of the Pythagorean theorem for the sides of a square: " The rope which is stretched across the diagonal of a square produces an area double the size of the original square.

The hot-dip process slightly reduces the strength of the base metal, which is a consideration for the manufacture of wire rope and other highly-stressed products.

The lead rope is separate, and it may be short ( from six to ten feet, two to three meters ) for everyday leading and tying, or much longer ( up to, eight meters ) for tasks such as for leading packhorses or for picketing a horse out to graze.

In Australian and British English, a halter is a rope with a spliced running loop around the nose and another over the poll, used mainly for unbroken horses or for cattle.

Longeing is the activity of having a horse walk, trot and / or canter in a large circle around the handler at the end of a rope that is 25 to long.

When pairs of horses are used in drawing a wagon or coach it is usual for the outer side of each pair to be connected to reins and the inside of the bits connected by a short bridging strap or rope.

A rein may be attached to a halter to lead or guide the horse in a circle for training purposes or to lead a packhorse, but a simple lead rope is more often used for these purposes.

Because the handle is attached to the resistance source by rope or similarly flexible media, the trajectory of the hands in the vertical plane is free making it possible for the rower to emulate the hand height difference between the stroke and the return.

Also, if laced together with rope instead of wire, the rope can be very quickly destroyed by such fires, after which the abatis can be quickly pulled apart by grappling hooks thrown from a safe distance.

Devised in China as chain pumps over 1000 years ago, these pumps can be made from very simple materials: A rope, a wheel and a PVC pipe are sufficient to make a simple rope pump.

These include a twisted skein of heather, one of a very few known examples of Neolithic rope.

In this way prayers can still be said even if the service books are for some reason unavailable or the person is not literate or otherwise unable to recite the service ; the use of a prayer rope is a very practical tool in such cases, simply for keeping count of the prayers said.

If the constricted object ( such as a temporarily whipped rope ) ends very close to where a constrictor binds it, a boa knot may prove a more stable solution.

Between a pair of links, each monomer can rotate freely about its neighbour, thus giving each section of chain leeway to assume a large number of geometries, like a very loose rope attached to a pair of fixed points.

Once the rope is wrapped around the poles enough to be very tight, end with two timber hitches and one or two clove hitches.

A properly executed lashing is very strong and will last as long as the twine or rope maintains its integrity.

A whipping is one way to try to prevent this, by applying multiple turns of twine ( sometimes called small stuff ) tightly around the rope very near the cut end.

* ( He threw up a ) frozen rope: A shot with a very flat trajectory.

A scene very similar to that of Finnegan's Wake is present in The Shipping News, when the character Jack Buggit is presumed to have drowned after being caught in the rope of a lobster pot, only for him to regain consciousness at his wake.

In particular, Japanese bondage is very much about the way the rope is applied and the pleasure is more in the journey than the destination.

Since combining several slivers produces a very thick rope of cotton fibres, directly after being combined the slivers are separated into rovings.

The pile hitch is very easy to tie and can be tied in the bight, without access to either end of the rope, making it a valuable tool.

This depicts the heroine of the novel, but shows her in the latest fashions of 1800, rather than in the very different historically-accurate hoopskirt s of 1749 — it would have been extremely difficult to jump rope in the clothing styles ( and high-heeled shoes ) of 1749 ...

Soon thereafter, at a feast at Beauly, the piper was playing " Bittack " or " MacThomas ", a song which includes the lines " There is a dirk upon Thomas ' son rattling and glancing above the band of the breeches, when a knife might very well satisfy him ; he has a sword and a shoulder belt, when a straw rope might answer him.

Once upon the rim surface he attempted to dislodge Kerrebrock, who was still very much conscious, by pulling forcefully on the rope.

: A lariat is a very, very long variation on the sautoir or rope, without a clasp, often worn draped multiple times around the neck ; the ends can be crossed over, looped, or knotted in various ways.

With the adequate hardware, a throw line, an attached weight, and a launching system ( e. g., a bow or slingshot ), a climbing rope can be anchored to a branch very high in the tree.

As the vertical rope is tensioned, the cow hitches on the crown ring press the skin against the flesh ring below ; this attaches the skin to the flesh ring very securely and stretches the skin over the bearing edge of the drum.