A becket hitch, including the double becket or figure-of-eight becket hitch, is any hitch that is made on an eye loop, i.e. on a becket.[1][2] A becket hitch has the same structure as the sheet bend, which joins, or "bends", the ends of two ropes together. The becket hitch, in contrast, fixes a rope to a closed eye or hook.[3] In this instance, a becket means the eye or hook of a pulley block, an eye in the end of a rope, or a rope handle on a sailor's sea chest.
^"Marlinspike Seamanship". Ship468.org. 2008. Archived from the original (PowerPoint) on 2011-10-07.
^Budworth, Geoffrey (September 2002). "Becket hitch". The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Knots. see image on page 59, showing 2 bends in figure-of-eight line. ISBN 9781585746262.
^Ashley, Clifford W. (1944), The Ashley Book of Knots, New York: Doubleday, p. 18
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