[bak-splahys] 
noun, verb, -spliced, -splic⋅ing.| 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. |
| 2. | to make a backsplice in (a rope end). |
