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Back splice
Braid a loop in rope
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back·splice
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noun, verb,
back·spliced,
back·splic·ing.
noun
1.
a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
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verb (used with object)
2.
to make a backsplice in (a rope end).
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