Eye Splice

Word EYE SPLICE
Character 10
Hyphenation eye -splice
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The word "eye-splice" in example sentences

Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything. ❋ Unknown (2002)

As the last one is flung away, its eye-splice still in midair framing a teardrop vista of gutted Swinem-nde, Frau Gnahb, sensing the release from land through her feet, gets under way in the usual manner, nearly losing a chimp over the fantail and sending Haftung's half-dozen lovelies sprawling in a winsome tangle of legs, bottoms and breasts. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

Bracing his mustache in what he figures to be a stiff upper lip, Ian Scuffling climbs on, one foot through an eye-splice, the other hanging free. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

Foucault and Parratt, and about the middle of the second dog-watch -- seven o'clock in the evening -- they were sitting on the deck working an eye-splice in the end of a large rope. ❋ Unknown (1902)

"Most likely only another tin skimmer of a yacht," suggested the mate, tossing the eye-splice and the marline-spike into the open hatch of the lazaret. ❋ Holman Day (1900)

He was seated cross-legged on the top of the house and was hammering down the lumps in a freshly twisted eye-splice with the end of ❋ Holman Day (1900)

Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsmen, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths. ❋ Various (1897)

Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope’s final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths. ❋ Unknown (2002)

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