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n. (marlin spike English)
Usage examples of "marlin spikes".
On the starboard side there were a couple of square metal boxes half-full of assorted and rusted ship's ironmongery-nuts, bolts, eyebolts, blocks, tackles, bottle screws, even a couple of marlin spikes.
He was a small man, but his fingers were work-toughened, hard as iron marlin spikes He found Hal's windpipe and blocked it off ruthlessly.
Everywhere men were at work, marlin spikes and needles, hammers and tackles, endeavouring to restore the ship which had carried them through such a frenzy that even Mudge had admitted it was one of the bitterest he had endured.
One wall was hung with coils of rope in various thicknesses and another had shelves of wooden implements, some of which looked like the pictures of marlin spikes she had seen in the history books.
Yet it wasn't what I wouldst call a square test of manhood because marlin spikes and belaying pins was used free and generous on both sides and the entire tactics smacked of rough house.