eye-splice

Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

As the last one is flung away, its eye-splice still in midair framing a teardrop vista of gutted Swinem-nde, Frau Gnahb, sensing the release from land through her feet, gets under way in the usual manner, nearly losing a chimp over the fantail and sending Haftung's half-dozen lovelies sprawling in a winsome tangle of legs, bottoms and breasts.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Bracing his mustache in what he figures to be a stiff upper lip, Ian Scuffling climbs on, one foot through an eye-splice, the other hanging free.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Foucault and Parratt, and about the middle of the second dog-watch -- seven o'clock in the evening -- they were sitting on the deck working an eye-splice in the end of a large rope.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

"Most likely only another tin skimmer of a yacht," suggested the mate, tossing the eye-splice and the marline-spike into the open hatch of the lazaret.

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

He was seated cross-legged on the top of the house and was hammering down the lumps in a freshly twisted eye-splice with the end of

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsmen, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897

Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855