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/bak"spluys'/, n., v., backspliced, backsplicing.n.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.v.t.2. to make a backsplice in (a rope end).[BACK2 + SPLICE]
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Universalium. 2010.
