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marlinspikes

marlinspikes is the plural of marlinspike.

Meaning of marlinspike

Noun

marlinspike (plural marlinspikes)

  1. A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.
    • […] the afterguard, of whom they have but a sorry opinion, chiefly landsmen, never going aloft except to reef or furl the mainsail and in no wise competent to handle a marlinspike or turn in a dead-eye, say.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

Questions about marlinspikes

What is marlinspikes the plural of?
Marlinspikes is the plural of marlinspike.

Words near marlinspikes in the dictionary

  1. marlingspike
  2. marlingspikes
  3. marlining
  4. marlins
  5. marlinspike
  6. marlinspikes
  7. Marlinton
  8. Marlise
  9. marlite
  10. marlites
  11. marlitic

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