marlinespike

1. 1.

   a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing)

   Synonymsmarlinspikemarlingspike

   Broaderhand tool

Other forms of marlinespike

plural

marlinespikes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about marlinespike

What does marlinespike mean?

marlinespike means "a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing)".

How many syllables are in marlinespike?

marlinespike has 4 syllables: mar-li-ne-spike. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for marlinespike?

Close synonyms include marlinspike, marlingspike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marlinespike a common word?

marlinespike is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.