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MARLING-SPIKE
MARLING-SPIKE, (epissoir, Fr.) an iron pin, tapering, to a point, and furnished with a large round head. It is principally used to penetrate the twists, or strands of a rope, in order to introduce the ends of some other through the intervals, in the act of knotting or splicing.It is also used as a lever, on many other occasions, about the rigging, particularly in fixing the feizings upon the shrouds, block-strops, clues of the sails, &c.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 188, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0849.html