Crossword clues for marlinspike
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splice n. A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splice
WordNet
n. a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) [syn: marlinespike, marlingspike]
Wikipedia
Marlinspike may refer to:
- Marlinspike - A tool used for splicing and working with rope.
- Terebra maculata, a snail known as the Marlinspike auger
- Marlinspike Hall - A château in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin comics.
- Moxie Marlinspike - Noted computer security expert, sailor, vagabond, author and filmmaker.
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Marlinspike (; sometimes marlin spike, marlinespike, or the archaic marlingspike/marling-spike) is a tool used in marine ropework. Shaped in the form of a polished metal cone tapered to a rounded or flattened point, they aid in such tasks as unlaying rope for splicing, untying knots, drawing marline tight using a marlinspike hitch, and as a toggle joining ropes under tension in a belaying pin splice.
Most marlinspikes are long, but may reach and more for working heavy cables and ropes. They are usually made from iron or steel, whereas fids, similar in shape and function, are formed from wood or bone. The marlinspike may be a separate tool or one item on a pocket knife.
Sailors who become proficient at knot tying, splicing, and sewing using the marlinspike are said to have mastered marlinespike seamanship, earning them the right to be known as marlin spikes or marlinspike seamen.
Usage examples of "marlinspike".
You had it in for him for back-talking, everybody knows that, had him gagged with a marlinspike half the Day Watch yesterday.
Without conscious will, he became erect deep between her lips as she raised and lowered her head over him, making him as rigid as a marlinspike, as tumescent as a belaying pin.
Captain Marlinspike Werner showed me was his own cabin, in the stern right under the afterdeck.
The first great rush of rain and wind almost capsized the ship, but she righted quickly, and Marlinspike sheered her bow to within five points of the wind.
The air was clear and fresh, without a trace of the smog and pollution that, according to Cap Marlinspike, had once made the city all but unlivable, before either of us was born.
Captain Marlinspike Werner poked his head in the door, looking at me with surprise through his steel-rim spectacles.
It was his first voyage on such a vessel, although he had fished upon deep water since childhood, and knew a marlinspike from a hickory fid before he was six.
Jonathan could see no profit hi that He cast around for a weapon and seized upon a brass marlinspike that had been shoved in among the canvas and rope.
He held the marlinspike in his teeth as he struck out for the sandbar which he lumbered into several yards before he expected it.
Whiskers, with practicing my marlinspike skills until I could tie knots at night, down in the bilge, blindfolded, with my hands behind my back.
Rance had long ago instilled in me the need to be an expert marlinspike sailor.
When I joined the Service, you would find a lieutenant gammoning and rigging his own bowsprit, or aloft, maybe, with a marlinspike slung round his neck, showing an example to his men.
Lord get me two bottles of brandy, a long knife, a curved marlinspike, and a ball of spun yarn.
I rolled over the thwart and into the bottom of the boat, Iying there with chattering teeth and quietly freeing the marlinspike from its resting place along the seam of my trouser leg, where I had tied it with spun yarn.
I went over the bulwarks at last and crept to the capstan, holding my knife and marlinspike in my left hand.