splicer

[splahy-ser]

noun

a device used to hold two sections of motion-picture film, recording tape, etc., in proper alignment while they are being spliced together.

Origin of splicer

First recorded in 1925–30; splice + -er¹

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Historical Examples of splicer

It was an envelope slipped behind the bookcase, containing a bill from Splicer, the London cricket-bat-maker, dated a year ago.
The Master of the Shell
Talbot Baines Reed
One which hardly shows itself, from the neatness of the rope and the skill of the splicer.
The Sailor's Word-Book
William Henry Smyth