Ay, they spliced it together among them," returned Tom; "though one part of this cruise will turn out but badly.
A piece of rope, sometimes with two legs, and one or more iron thimbles spliced into it.
The pendant, which is of better material, and hawser-laid, has an eye and thimble spliced in one end, and is pointed at the other.
A short rope spliced round a thimble in the eye of the bell-crank, with a double wall-knot crowned at its end.
These are made with large rope, and an eyespliced in each end; they are secured round the bowsprit, on the upper side, with a rose lashing.
An iron ring with a concave outer surface to contain snugly in the cavity a rope, which is spliced about it.
The blockspliced into the topsail-tye; it is large and flat, and sometimes double.
Ropes spliced into rings on the outside of the port-lids, and rove through leaden pipes in the ship's sides, to work the port-lids up or down by the tackles.
A rope attached to the bows of a boat, used for making her fast: it is spliced with a thimble to a ring-bolt inside the stem.
In sail-making it is an eye spliced in the bolt-rope, to which the much smaller head-rope is attached.
A tackle with two hooks, one to hitch into a cringle of the main or fore sail in the bolt-rope, and the other to hitch into a strap spliced to the chess-tree.
A rope spliced into the strop or round of any block, leaving a long end for making fast to rigging, spars, &c.
The wagon was a wreck; why the spliced pole had hung together to the Halfway I don't know, but it had; and I let the smell on it go as a skunk.
I had enough business holding in the horses, remembering that spliced pole.
A third time the cable was spliced and about two hundred miles paid out, when it parted some twenty feet from the Agamemnon, and the vessels returned to the coast of Ireland.
It is made in the same manner as the short splice, but instead of splicing the two ends together, the end of the rope is unlaid and then bent around and spliced into its own strands of the standing part, as shown in the illustration.
In a factory, or machine shop, rope belting will often prove far better than leather, and if well spliced together will run very smoothly and evenly even on long stretches.
The people take two long stems, and splice them together at their narrow ends, the total length of the spliced pair being considerably greater than the width of the river to be bridged.
I spliced my money, went to Walk's (the old tune jeweler at Indianapolis) and bought myself one.
I knew the old fellow had had a good breakfast, and that he had no doubt spliced me up a pair of pedigrees of some sort or other.
Above these objects eight or nine Apaches were raising a long ladder of spliced poles against the face of the rock wall.
After he passed the middle of the ascent, his weight, added to that of the men above, made the much-spliced main ladder bow and sway.
They hoisted it above them and spliced its foot to the head of the main one.
Protected by the storm of bullets, the topmost Apache held up the last ladder while his mate against the cliff spliced it fast.
The various pieces having been thus severely put to the proof, they were spliced end to end, and the joints or splicings tested.
An additional length having been spliced to it, the laying recommenced; and on the 8th the squadron entered Heart's Content, having thus succeeded in laying a second line of cable from Ireland to America.
Poles are extremely scarce in this region--lumber has to be brought from Puget Sound, 6000 miles away--so nearly all the masts I saw were made of small pieces of wood spliced two or three times.
Me and Mrs. Van are going to get spliced just as soon as the Ouija board tells her the winning system.
They're up here to get spliced before she goes East.
A loop is spliced by opening the strands of the end, forming a loop in the rope of sufficient capacity, and then raising the strands, in the manner before described, one by one at the required point of union.
No more do I, Dick," replied his mate; "I feel as if it never could be rightlyspliced again.
On the 23rd, the end of the shore cable was spliced to that of the main cable, and the voyage had begun.
The rest of us spliced the ropes and made the necessary tackles, while others spliced wire-rope shafts to our sledges.
At the end of this boat, just below the mouth of the cylinder, was affixed a solid iron ring, and to this was spliced a strong rawhide rope of great length.
Always use spliced in preference to socketed clubs.
For a very long period this was done by what we call scaring or splicing, the neck of the club having a long bevel which was spliced with the shaft and bound round for several inches with black twine.
The boat was now under sail, and the crew laid in their oars and "spliced the main brace.
Just think, Bill, what it would be to be spliced to a creature so good that it'd be like being chained to a scripture saint for the rest of your life.
Universal joy followed the announcement that the cable was successfully laid, not only so, but the lost cable of the previous year was, to the general wonder, found, picked up and spliced and continued to the American shore.
