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Definitions
a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing)
Word origin
From marline + spike.
Used in a sentence
“[…] 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.”
“There was / that interval of moonless calm filled only / with the water's and the rigging's usual sounds, / then sudden movement, blows and snarling cries / and they had fallen on us with machete / and marlinspike.”
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