page_title: Stevedore knot
section_title: Tying
hierarchical_section_title: Stevedore knot / Tying
caption_attribution_description: English: Stevedore knot
context_page_description: The stevedore knot is a stopper knot, often tied near the end of a rope. It is more bulky and less prone to jamming than the closely related figure-eight knot.
  The bight is given one more half turn than in the former knot [which itself is given, "one additional half twist," more than the figure-eight knot], before the end is finally stuck.
  — The Ashley Book of Knots
context_section_description: The knot is formed by following the steps to make a figure-of-eight knot, but the working end makes an additional wrap around the standing part before passing back through the initial loop in the same direction it would have for a figure-of-eight knot.
caption: Stevedore knot before tightening
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