Lashing is where the rope is used to bind two or more items together. It is commonly used on timber poles, during explorations and mainly as a sailor's tool.

Lashing classifications

There are different types of lashing and some of them are:

• Square lashing
• Diagonal lashing
• Shear lashing
• Round lashing
• Tripod lashing
• Stockgrower's lash

Square lashing knot binding poles together produce huge structures with the grouping of both square and diagonal lashing. Square lashing is generally seen on load bearing members while diagonal lashing is made during the cross bracing of poles when at 45^° to 90^° angle. Next is the shear lashing, preferably used in reinforcing any fragile pole using a 6m rope. The loose shear lashing made at the edges of two poles is helped out to make an A-frame as well as to form a tripod structure.

Round lashing or vertical lashing is applied to make the pole longer by binding the poles side by side with a clove hitch, later with tight seven or eight wraps around the poles and finally finishing off with another clove hitch. Following the list next is the tripod lashing which binds three poles together at one single point to make the tripod structure. Tripod lashing takes different forms, one with the rope woven between poles called as racked wrapping turns which are considered to be safer and other with rope round the poles without the weaving in between called as plain wrapping turns. Stockgrower's lash, another form of lashing is always favored to know before any adventure as it helps to hold the closed barbed wire gates and tighten them by using the tractor post and latch post as pulleys.