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n. - A pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing).

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  • The place before is full of the sound of the hammer tapping the silver on the marlingspike.
  • And that hapless son of Ham, who happened to be just crossing the main-deck, heard a marlingspike, which by ill luck was lying at hand, flying past his ears.
  • We took the wrong road, and in turning about split one of our shafts, but Braisted served it with some spare rope, using the hatchet-handle as a marlingspike, so that it...
  • He drew out a small marlingspike which he carried in a sheath at his hip, and, bending over the flagstone, felt for the notch; found it, inserted the point, and began to...
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