splice, to

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 532 words | Copyright

splice, to, a method of joining two ropes or wires together by unlaying the strands at the two ends and tucking or relaying them. The end result is known as a splice. Ropes and wires are spliced together to join them permanently, but knots are knotted when the join is temporary. Ropes can be joined by a long splice so as to reeve them through a block; a short splice, or a cut splice, is required if an eye is to be incorporated at the point of junction. An eye required at the end of a rope or wire is produced by an eye splice.

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