eyesplice

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See also: eye splice

English

Etymology

From eye +‎ splice.

Noun

eyesplice (plural eyesplices)

  1. (nautical) A splice formed by bending a rope's end back and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eyesplice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)