Editing Taut-line hitch (section)

== Naming ==
[[Image:AdjustableHitchVariations.jpg|thumb|'''Top''', left to right: [[ABOK]] "Rolling hitch(1)"(#1734), "rolling hitch(2)"(#1735), "Magnus Hitch"(#1736).  '''Bottom''', the corresponding adjustable loop made using the hitch above it, left to right: "adjustable hitch"(#1800, #1856), "midshipman's hitch"(#1855), "adjustable hitch" with the concluding hitch reversed.(#1857)]]

The adjustable loop forms of the rolling hitch and Magnus hitch, in addition to being called either of those two names, have also come to be known variously as the '''taut-line hitch''',<ref name="tossrigg"/> '''tent-line hitch''',<ref name="tossrigg"/> '''rigger's hitch''',<ref name="tossrigg"/> '''adjustable hitch''',<ref name="ashley304">{{citation |last=Ashley |first=Clifford W. |title=The Ashley Book of Knots |year= 1944 |publisher=Doubleday |location=New York |page=304}}</ref> or '''midshipman's hitch'''.<ref name="ashley304"/>  These knots are generally shown as being based on one of three underlying hitches: two variants of the rolling hitch ([[ABOK]] #1734 and #1735) and the Magnus hitch (#1736).

These three closely related hitches have a long and muddled [[Rolling hitch#Naming|naming history]] that leads to ambiguity in the naming of their adjustable loop forms as well.  The use of the Ashley reference numbers for these inconsistently named hitches can eliminate ambiguity when required.  See the adjacent image for an illustration of these related knots.

An early use of the taut-line hitch name is found in [[Howard W. Riley]]'s 1912 ''Knots, Hitches, and Splices'', although it is shown in the rolling hitch form and suggested for use as a [[Stopper knot#Nautical usage|stopper]].<ref name="riley1912">{{cite journal|last=Riley|first=Howard W.|author-link=Howard W. Riley|journal=The Cornell Reading-Courses|title=Knots, Hitches, and Splices|series=Rural Engineering Series No. 1|volume=1|issue=8|publisher=New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University|location=Ithaca, NY|date=January 1912|page=1425|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNNKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1425|access-date=2011-11-26}} As not collected in ''Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York'', 136th Session, 1913, Vol. 19, No. 29, Part 5.</ref>