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Marlinspike

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.

    "[…] the afterguard, of whom they have but a sorry opinion, chiefly landsmen, never going aloft except to reef or furl the mainsail and in no wise competent to handle a marlinspike or turn in a dead-eye, say."

  2. 2
    a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) wordnet

Etymology

From marline + spike.

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