单词 | cunt splice |
释义 | > as lemmascunt splice cunt splice n. Nautical (now historical) a splice forming a relatively long double loop or eye (see quots. 1644, 1769). ΚΠ 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 98 The count-splise, that is, when the ends of either roapes are splised into the other roapes, some distance from the end, and not one end in an other (as the first), then they will make a long slit (as it were betwixt them) which is the reason of the name. 1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services iv. 192 The Cunt-splice, which is when the Strands of either Rope are put one into another, a good distance off from the very ends, and the very ends left out unspliced. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Splice The cunt-splice is constructed in the same manner as the eye-splice, being no other than the ends of two lines fastened together at a short distance from each other, the extremities of either being interwoven into the bight of the other, so that the line becomes double in the extent of the splice. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 232 It is formed with a cunt-splice in the middle, which passes over the pomiglion, or cascabel, of the gun. 1801 J. J. Moore Brit. Mariner's Vocab. sig. T4 The cunt Splice, is constructed in a similar manner to the eye splice, but for a different purpose, being chiefly used in lead-lines, log-lines and fishing-lines. 1969 P. O'Brian Master & Commander ii. 63 A simple thing like a cunt-splice will not take a man-of-war's bosun long. 2006 B. Aldiss Sell Pig & buy me Out ix. 119 The rope work that O'Rorke tried to teach him seethed with Freudian symbolism. There were cunt splices, dog's cocks, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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