splice
verb (used with object)
to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
was splicing
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past progressiveof splice.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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So all that day the shepherd was splicing, and hammering, and gluing, and bandaging.
From The Monkey That Would Not Kill by Louis Wain
At the landing Mr. Jarley was splicing some heavy rope which he expected to use the next day when the sunken Bright Eyes would be actually raised.
From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Amy Bell Marlowe
He was splicing the two pieces together with a strip of the brown cloth-like stuff which is wrapped round the stalks of the cocoa-palm fronds.
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
West was splicing a golf shaft and whistling blithely over the task.
From The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour
I never used to think when I was splicing a graft on a tree that I should come to splicing ’board ship again.
From Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea by Gordon Browne
