 Whippings may also be applied by hand or using a palm and needle, and either simply tied off or made neat and permanent by reeving the twine's cut ends into or behind the whipping, sewing them to adjacent strands, or through the rope itself.In applications where a lot of flexing is expected the whipping may be impregnated with dilute spar varnish or superglue.French whipping is a whipping knot that consists of a series of half hitches.