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How to Point a Rope End
A whipped rope end is blunt and often too fat to pass through the block it has to reeve through. Pointing tapers the end instead, and covers the taper in a woven sleeve made from the rope's own yarns. Sailors did it as a matter of course and almost nobody writes it down now.
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