marlinspike

• "This is the item I'm most excited about," he said, gesturing to a long bar known as a marlinspike, a nautical tool for splicing rope and untying knots. —  Top Stories - Google News
• The class is just the first of the spring continuing education series to run from April through May to teach diesel engine repair, marlinspike seamanship, which includes knot tying, splicing, whipping and lastly, the technique of carving quarterboards. —  The Martha's Vineyard Times News Headlines
• Some stood in a circle and by turns threw a piece of iron, shaped somewhat like a marlinspike, to the ground; the art consisting in getting the sharp end to strike it just in front of rings placed on the ground, in such a way that the piece of iron remained standing. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• If he shows his teeth, give him a rope's end or a marlinspike. —  The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
• I'll soon show them that;" and he began to feel about carefully all over the face of the stones before him, to satisfy himself before long that there had been a large roughly square opening here, which had been filled in with some pieces of stone, between which he could feel that there was mortar Now, then, what I want is a good marlinspike or an iron bar. —  Cutlass and Cudgel

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