

Carrick bend – joins two lines of heavy rope or cable.Butterfly loop – forms a fixed loop in the middle of a rope.Butterfly coil – a method for storing and transporting a climbing rope.Butterfly bend – connects two ends of rope.Buntline hitch – attach a rope to an object.Bumper knot – secures soft or loose bait in fishing.Bowline on a bight – makes a pair of fixed-size loops in the middle of a rope.Boling knot (archaic term for the Bowline) – forms a fixed loop at the end of a rope.Bowline – forms a fixed loop at the end of a rope.Bowen knot (heraldic knot) – not a true knot (an unknot), a continuous loop of rope laid out as an upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners.Bourchier knot – a variety of heraldic knot.Bottle sling (jug sling) – used to create a handle for a container with a narrow tapering neck.Boom hitch – attach a line to a fixed object like a pipe.Blood loop knot ( dropper loop) – forms a loop which is off to the side of the line.Blood knot (barrel knot) – joins sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining much of the line's inherent strength.

Blake's hitch – friction hitch commonly used by arborists and tree climbers as an ascending knot.Blackwall hitch – temporary means of attaching a rope to a hook.Bimini twist – fishing knot used for offshore trolling and sportsfishing.Beer knot – bend used in tubular webbing as in slings used in rock climbing.Becket hitch – any hitch made on an eye loop.Basket weave knot – a family of bend and lanyard knots with a regular pattern.Barrel knot ( blood knot) – joins sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining much of the line's inherent strength.Barrel hitch (barrel sling) – suspends an object.Bale sling hitch – continuous loop of strap to form a cow hitch around an object.Bait loop ( bumper knot) – secures soft or loose bait in fishing.Bag knot ( miller's knot) – binding knot used to secure the opening of a sack or bag.Bachmann knot – friction hitch useful when the knot needs to be reset quickly/often.Axle Hitch – used to tie a hitch in a hard-to-reach place.Ashley's Stopper Knot – trefoil-faced stopper at the end of the rope.Ashley's Bend – used to securely join the ends of two ropes together.a Manharness Knot – a knot with a loop on the bight for non-critical purposes Arbor Knot – attach fishing line to the arbor of a fishing reel.Useful for fine or slippery line, it is one of the few loop knots which holds well in bungee cord. Angler's Loop – knot which forms a fixed loop.Anchor Bend – attaching a rope to a ring or similar termination.

