Meaning

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

    Marlspieker

    сва́йкаsvájka

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

Translations

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Origin

From marline + spike.

From marline + spike.

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Forms

plural: marlinspikes

Synonyms

2 synonyms
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