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MAGAZINE to MARLING-SPIKE
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MATE of a ship of war to MIDSHIPMAN

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MARLING-SPIKE

MARLING-SPIKE, (epissoir, Fr.) an iron pin, tapering, to a point, and furnished with a large round head. It is principally used to penetrate the twists, or strands of a rope, in order to introduce the ends of some other through the intervals, in the act of knotting or splicing.

It is also used as a lever, on many other occasions, about the rigging, particularly in fixing the feizings upon the shrouds, block-strops, clues of the sails, &c.


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