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eye splice definition

eye splice

a splice made by turning back the end of a rope and interlacing its strands into the body of the rope so as to form an end loop, or eye

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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