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Many roasts are tied with string prior to roasting, often using thereefknotor the packer's knot.
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It is one of the four basic maritime knots (the other three are figure-eight knot,reefknotand clove hitch).
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Areefknotis formed by tying a left-handed overhand knot and then a right-handed overhand knot, or vice versa.
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It is considered inferior to thereefknot(square knot), which it superficially resembles.
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Thereefknotis commonly taught as "left over right, tuck under" then "right over left, tuck under".
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It is a more secure replacement for thereefknot(square knot), especially in its doubled variety.
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The shoelace knot is a doubly slippedreefknot, the original being far harder to undo.
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The knot can be locked by making one or more overhand knots with the loose ends in the manner of areefknot.
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The thief knot is much less secure than the already insecurereefknot.
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It is better to tie areefknotin nearly all circumstances.
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Wrap backwards up the rope until you have both ends side by side, finish by tying areefknot.
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For added security, ensure both ends are sufficiently long to tie them into areefknot.
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One way to distinguish them is that in thereefknoteach loop passes completely over, or completely under (not through) the neck of the other.
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The traditional bow knot used for tying shoelaces is simply areefknotwith the final overhand knot made with two bights instead of the ends.
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