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Noun(1) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing

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(1) In splicing or other work requiring the opening of the strands of rope one's fingers are often inadequate, and a marlinspike or fid must be employed.(2) This knot is used to temporarily secure a marlinspike , a device used to splice rope, to another object.(3) A screaming sailor, clad in a sodden loincloth and wielding a marlinspike , leaps at him.(4) There's no technobabbling about phased inducers or flux capacitors or what-have-you; the ÔÇÿspace-shipsÔÇÖ are gorgeously retro, with sails and masts and marlinspikes .
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(1) marlinespike
(2) spike
(3) marline
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