backsplice: Meaning and Definition of

back•splice

Pronunciation: (bak'splīs"), [key]
— n., v., -spliced, -splic•ing.
—n.
  1. a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
—v.t.
  1. to make a backsplice in (a rope end).
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