marlin-spike
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[edit]Noun
[edit]marlin-spike (plural marlin-spikes)
- Alternative form of marlinspike
- 1877, R. Elton Smile [Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter I, in The Manatitlans; or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derecho, Imprenta De Razon, page 16:
- Bill, who was near at hand, relieved the padre from the danger of poisonous inoculation, before the teeth of the savage had penetrated the cloth, by the introduction of a marlin-spike with a decisive force that showed but little care for their preservation.
- 1946, United States Navy Department Bureau of Ships, “Appendix B”, in Technical Bulletin No. 5: Instructions for the Design and Care of Wire Rope Installations[1], page 51:
- 2. First Tuck, No. 1 Strand:
(a) Insert marlin-spike from left to right under strands A, B, and C (see figure No. B-1), in main body of rope close to thimble. Give spike one complete revolution counter-clockwise, i.e., away from thimble.