backsplice

[ bak-splahys ]

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.

verb (used with object)

, back·spliced, back·splic·ing.

1. to make a backsplice in (a rope end).

Word History and Origins

Origin of backsplice¹

back ² + splice