Palm Leather hand band with a steel disc for pushing a sailmaker’s needle when sewing.(1)

Parcelling Wrapping a rope with strips of canvas or other material preparatory to serving. (6)

Part (s). The inactive bulk of a line is known as the Standing Part, the section nearest the end is sometimes referred to as “its own part”. (8)

Pass To take a line around an object as in “to pass a Turn around a pin” (8)

Plait See Braid

Pointing  A method by which the end of a rope is worked into a cone-shaped point (6)

Pricker  A light piece of (pointed) metal, normally with a handle of another material, similar to a small marlin spike and used for similar purposes. (2)

Prussik,To, Climbing a rope by the use of special, (Prussik type) knots. (4)

Polyamide Family name for Nylon (1)

Polyester  Family name for Dacron, Terylene. (1)

Polyethylene Family name for “Silver” rope. Also known as Polythene. (1)

Polypropylene Synthetic (Polyolefin) in widespread use. (5)