splicer

American  

[splahy-ser] / ˈsplaɪ sər /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of splicer

First recorded in 1925–30; splice + -er ¹

Example Sentences

There’s a big orbic structure in the background that’s meant to look like an atom splicer.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2018

Now 60, Mr. DiNapoli was raised in Albertson, on Long Island, where his father climbed telephone poles working as a cable splicer.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2014

One worker, Anthony Fenwick, a distribution splicer, called 311.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2012

Strapped to a utility pole, a telephone-cable splicer named Robert S. Liberal rank-and-file Democrats in the House of Representatives had long been seething at the independence and aloofness of some of the chamber's committee chairmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

For years he was a high-voltage cable splicer, a job he loved because it meant working outdoors with plenty of freedom and overtime pay.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times