Safe Working Load Some fraction of a rope’s breaking strength, usually expressed as a ratio. (7)

Scoubidou  The craft making of ornaments by tying braids, plaits, sennits etc. in hollow plastic line. (4)

Security The knot’s ability to resist slipping, distorting or capsizing when a load is applied whether as a constant load or as a shock load.(10)

Seize  To bind together two adjacent lines with many wrapping of small line. (9)

Seizing A means of binding two ropes together to make them secure.(1)

Seizing Stuff  See Small Stuff

Sennit, Sinnet Braided cordage made in solid and hollow forms from three or more strands (4)

Serving Covering a rope with marlin after it has been prepared by worming and parcelling, to provide protection against chafe and moisture penetration.(1)

Serving Board A small tool used when serving particularly where there is limited

space. (3)

Serving Mallet A larger tool used when serving, to ensure even laying and adequate tension. (3)

Sheath

Shock Cord Stretchy cord made with a core of rubber strands and an extendable sheath. (5)

Sinking a strand or yarn In splicing a three strand and a four strand rope together, the extra strand is “sunk as it lies” (3)

Sisal Rope made from fibre derived from the Agave plant. (1)

S Laid Left handed laid stranded rope (4)

Slack Loose material that is worked out to complete a knot. (3)

Sling, Strop  Cordage of any description that is applied around an object, usually in the form of an endless band, to hoist or haul it. (10)

Slip, Knot, Slipped Knot  Any knot which may be spilled by pulling on an end to withdraw a loop. (3)

Small Stuff Light line (marline, waxed twine, etc.) used for whipping, seizing and serving (9)

Snarl  An (unwanted)entanglement of ropes. (3)

Snug  Where two or more leads, or parts of a knot, are close up against each other to form a knot as it will be used. (4)

Snugging  The process of removing unwanted slack from a dressed knot as part of the tightening procedure. (5)

Soft-laid.  Rope that has been loosely laid up. (10)

Spill To let go (a knot) completely (3)

Splice (a) A Bend or Eye formed by interweaving the Strands or rope or ropes. (b) To form a Bend or Eye by Splicing. (8)

Split Film  Synthetic cordage made from a sheet of material reduced to ribbon-like fragments (5)

Standing Part That part of a rope which remains unknotted. (7)

Strand That part of a rope made up of Yarns, the twist of the strand being the opposite of the Yarns

Stem The neck of a Knob Knot (3)

Stop  To Seize or Lash, generally temporarily (2)

Stopper. A knotted mass containing no loops. A knot that prevents the rope from feeding through an aperture. (7)

Strand  Yarns twisted together in the opposite direction to the yarn itself. Rope made from with twisted strands is known as laid rope. (4)

Strap, Strop  Form of a Sling (6)

Strength The amount of force a knot or rope can sustain (7)

String  Usually refers to thin cordage for domestic use and may include thick thread and twine. (10)

Swig, Swigging  To sweat (tighten, take in,) rope by pulling out at right angles and quickly letting go. The rope captured is trapped using a cleat (1)