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==Usage== As the name suggests, this knot is often used by [[lumbermen]] and [[arborist]]s for attaching ropes or chains to tree trunks, branches, and logs.<ref name="treeclimb"/><ref name="ashley77">Ashley (1944), p. 77</ref> For stability when towing or lowering long items, the addition of a half-hitch in front of the timber hitch creates a '''timber hitch and a half hitch''',<ref name="timberhalf">{{Citation|title=Knots and Splices|last=Blandford|first=Percy|publisher=Arco Publishing Company, Inc|location=New York, New York, USA|year=1965|page=23}}</ref> or known as a [[killick hitch]]<ref name="aksday94"/> when at sea.<ref name=killick>{{Citation|title=Knots and Splices|last=Blandford|first=Percy|publisher=Arco Publishing Company, Inc|location=New York, New York, USA|year=1965|page=32}}</ref> A killick is "a small anchor or weight for mooring a boat, sometimes consisting of a stone secured by pieces of wood".<ref name="killick1">{{Cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/killick|title=Killick}}</ref> This can also prevent the timber hitch from rolling.<ref name="treeclimb"/> The timber hitch is one of the few knots that can easily be tied in a chain,{{cn|date=November 2024}} leading to its use in applications where ropes lack the necessary strength and would break under the same amount of tension. This knot is also known as the Bowyer's Knot, as it is used to attach the lower end of the bowstring to the bottom limb on an [[English longbow]].<ref name="longbow">{{Cite web|url=http://www.longbowarchers.co.uk/knot.html|title=Tying the Bowyers Knot|first=Pip|last=Bickerstaffe|publisher=Grand Affairs Group|year=2010|access-date=2012-01-02|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426090013/http://www.longbowarchers.co.uk/knot.html|archive-date=2012-04-26}}</ref> The hitch is also one of the methods used to connect [[ukulele]]<ref name="ukedum">{{Citation|title=Ukulele For Dummies|last=Wood|first=Alistair|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=Chichester, England|year=2011|pages=269β271}}</ref> and [[classical guitar]]<ref name="guitmake">{{Citation|title=Guitarmaking, Tradition and Technology|first1=William R.|last1=Cumpiano|first2=Jonathan D.|last2=Natelson|publisher=Chronicle Books|location=San Francisco|year=1997|pages=368β369}}</ref><ref name="guitartip">{{Citation|title=Tipbook Acoustic Guitar|first=Hugo|last=Pinksterboer|publisher=The Tipbook Company|location=Netherlands|year=2001|pages=66β69}}</ref> strings to the [[Bridge (instrument)|bridge]] of the instruments. <gallery> File:Zimmermannsknoten.jpg|Timber hitch on a tree trunk. File:Classical_Guitar_Bridge_Bone.jpg|Timber hitches on the bridge of a classical guitar </gallery>
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