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▪ I. splice, n.|splaɪs|
[f. the vb. Cf. Sw. spliss, splits.]
1. a. A joining or union of two portions of rope, cable, cord, etc., effected by untwisting and interweaving the strands at the point of junction. Chiefly Naut.
The various kinds of splices are freq. denoted by some distinguishing term, as cut splice, drawing splice, eye splice or ring splice, long splice, round splice, short (etc.) splice.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. v. 26 Splicing is so to let one ropes end into another they shall be as firme as if they were but one rope, and this is called a round Splice; but the cut Splice is to let one into another with as much distance as you will. c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685) 192 When an Eye is to be made at the end of a Rope, the ends of the Strands..are with a Fidd drawn into the ends of the other Ropes Strands and this is called a Splice. 1711Milit. & Sea Dict., Make a Splice, and seaze the Ends down with some Sinnet. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine s.v., The long splice..is much neater and smoother than the short-splice. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 291 Explanations of various kinds of splices..are given in Dana's Seaman's Manual. 1866Even. Standard 13 July 3 The Atlantic Cable... The Great Eastern..will leave Berehaven this afternoon, arriving at the buoys..to-morrow morning, when the splice will be made. 1867F. Francis Angling ix. (1880) 316 Where you have to tie and untie your own splices.
transf.1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xv, The Vice-Admiral has got a hint from Sir —, to kick that wild splice, young Cringle, about a bit.
b. techn. A joining of two pieces of wood, metal girders or rails, concrete beams, etc., formed by overlapping and securing the ends; a scarf-joint.
1875in Knight Dict. Mech. 2280/1. 1877 Rep. & Awards Group XVIII U.S. Centennial Comm. Internat. Exhib. 1876 66 (caption) Rails and splices used on Pennsylvania Railroad and branches. 1892L. de C. Berg Safe Building II. x. 113 In locating the rivets of a splice care should be taken not to weaken the original plate. 1934Relf & Johansen Handbk. Aerodynamics (ed. 2) I. ix. 638 In splicing built-up or box spars the splices in the flanges should come at the points of inflection. 1951R. D. Chellis Pile Foundations xi. 271 If piles are restrained throughout their full length in firm soil..a splice consisting of a full butt weld or single web and flange plates welded on in the field suffices. 1977J. P. Cook Composite Construction Methods x. 209 In the usual steel frame, column sizes are normally kept constant for a height of two stories, with the column splice about 3 or 4 ft above the floor level.
c. Cricket. The v-shaped tang of a bat-handle, which forms a joint with the blade; the joint itself. Also in slang phr. to sit on (or upon) the splice, to play a cautious defensive game.
1906A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer 44 The spliced handle was a later development, and some of the earliest splices were of ash. Ibid. 352 To sit upon the splice.—To play with too much caution, to deliberately refrain from scoring. 1912Daily Mirror 9 July 14/2 Vidler sat icily on the splice, playing the right game and keeping up an end while Crutchley got runs. 1927Punch 26 Jan. 108/1 ‘I don't think you're helping the score at all,’ I protested. ‘You're just sitting on your splice and leaving it all to me.’ 1935Encycl. Sports 195/1 Cricketers who bought a new bat treated it almost with reverence... They oiled every part of it, except the handle and splice. 1963A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 79 Dexter, hooking at him, nearly returned a gentle catch off the splice. 1968L. Frewin Best of Cricket's Fiction II. 267 There was a business-like look about him, the air of one who without being the least downhearted or inclined to sit upon the splice, was yet determined to take no foolish risks.
d. A joint made in editing or repairing film or magnetic or paper tape.
1923F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures (ed. 3) viii. 100 In making the splice care has to be observed to introduce the two pieces true to frame-line, gauge and marginal perforations. 1931,1936[see bloop v.]. 1949Frayne & Wolfe Elem. Sound Recording xxix. 603 A program can be edited in advance by cutting out portions or inserting other portions, since splices in the tape cannot be heard. 1973Screen Spring/Summer 43 Montage in the narrow sense (ie as an editing splice) has a diminishing importance in certain modern films.
2. slang. Union by marriage; a marriage; a wedding.
1830Galt Lawrie T. ii. i. (1849) 43 She ben't five-and-twenty—she'll make a heavenly splice! 1862Cornh. Mag. Jan. 54 Till the splice is made she's a right to please herself. 1876Holland Seven Oaks xxi. 303 I'm a little interested in her myself and I'm going to pay for the splice.
3. attrib. and Comb., as splice manner, splice-work, etc.; splice-bar, = splice-piece; splice-grafting, a method of grafting in which the scion and stock are cut obliquely and bound firmly together; whip- or tongue-grafting; hence splice-graft vb.; splice-joint, -piece (see quots.).
1815Trans. Horticultural Soc. I. 239 The amputated parts [of the pear-stocks] were then accurately fitted and bound, as in splice, or whip-grafting, to scions of Pear Trees. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry II. 397 [Dryden's style is] never approached by a German splice-work of anapaests and iambics. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 288 Splice-grafting, tongue-grafting, or whip-grafting, is the mode most commonly adopted in all gardens where the stocks are not much larger in diameter than the scion. Ibid. 289 In splice-grafting the shoots of peaches, nectarines, and apricots. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2280/1 Splice-piece,..a fish-plate or break-joint piece at the junction of two rails. 1884Ibid. Suppl. 842/2 Splice joint, the connecting joints between rails on railways. 1894Times 16 Aug. 6/4 Railway fish plates or splice bars.
▪ II. splice, v.|splaɪs|
Also 6–7 splise.
[ad. MDu. splissen, of doubtful origin, but perh. related to split v.; in the Continental languages now represented by Du. dial., LG. and G. splissen, WFris. splisse, NFris. splesse, splasse, Sw. splissa; also G. spleissen, splitsen, Du. splitsen, Sw. splitsa, Da. splidse. The Du. word is also the source of F. épisser († épicer), whence épissoir splicing-iron, and épissure a splice.]
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1. a. trans. To join (ropes, cables, lines, etc.) by untwisting and interweaving the strands of the ends so as to form one continuous length; to unite (two parts of the same rope) by interweaving the strands of one end into those of another part so as to form an eye or loop; to repair (rigging) in this way. Chiefly Naut.
Also const. with preps. and advs., as into, round, together.
1524–5[see splicing vbl. n. 1]. a1625Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301), To splice is to make fast the ends of Roapes one into the other by joining the strands at the ends of both the Roapes. 1633T. James Voy. 23 We went to worke..to splise our Cables. 1675Cocker Morals 15 All the Lines, made since Sol's Race began, Spliced into one, would prove too short to sound this bottomless..Sea. 1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4547/2 He spliced his Rigging, and repaired the Damages as fast as he could. 1795Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 14 Employed shifting our topsails and splicing our rigging. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 422 The two ends of these yarns he splices together. 1864Soc. Sci. Rev. I. 266 As the sailor wants to be taught how to splice a rope or rove his tackle. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 213, I very soon ingratiated myself with the other men by teaching them to splice rope.
absol.1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 80 Shew me the Gentleman, crys he, that can knot or splice, or make Pudding as it should be? 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 213, I was rather surprised to find that they could not splice.
b. To form (an eye or knot) in a rope by splicing.
1773Life N. Frowde 24, I could not only go to any Part of the Vessel that I was bid, but splice a Knot and go aloft. 1845J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific vii. 72 One end [of the line] is bent on to the harpoon; the other (with an eye spliced in it) is left hanging out of the sternpost tub.
c. to splice the main-brace: see main-brace1 b.
2. a. To join (two pieces of timber, etc.) by overlapping or scarfing the two ends together in such a way as to form one continuous length; to fasten together in this way; to graft by a similar process. Also, to fasten together (metal girders and rails, concrete beams, etc.) similarly.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 3 The Carpenter is to..[be] euer ready for calking, breaming,..fishing or spliceing the Masts or Yards. Ibid. 13 A Iury-mast; which is made with yards, rouftrees, or what they can, splised or fished together. 1728Chambers Cycl., To Splice among Gardeners, is to graft the Top of one Tree into the Stock of another, by cutting them sloping, and fastening them together. 1763Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. IV. 408 The branches of the old tree thus spliced in the rind yield an uncommon quantity of fruit. 1791W. Gilpin Forest Scenery I. 128 A very noble fir.., which was not spliced in the common mode, but was converted in it's full dimensions, into the bowsprit of the Britannia. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. ix, East and Tom were..splicing a favourite old fives'-bat. 1860Mayne Reid Hunters' Feast xvii, The breaking of our waggon-tongue..delayed our journey. There was plenty of good hickory-wood,..and Jake..soon spliced it again. 1875[see splint n. 4 b]. 1892L. de C. Berg Safe Building II. x. 113 If any part of a girder..is spliced, made of two parts, the number of rivets each side of splice..should be made sufficient to transfer the full strength of original plate across the joint. 1913W. H. Sellew Steel Rails iv. 263 The stiffness of the rail that is to be spliced. 1951R. D. Chellis Pile Foundations ix. 201 (caption) Exposing reinforcing preparatory to splicing a large precast concrete pile. 1976R. Chudley Construction Technol. III. vii. 75 Where members of the frame are joined or spliced together the connections are generally mechanical (nut and bolt).
b. transf. To unite in this manner by means of surgery or natural healing.
1755J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 178 Surgeon Macpherson..having thus spliced the fox's tail to the little skill he had in surgery. 1867Latham Black & White 87 The glass cases of broken bones,..as poor mother nature had tried to glue them together and splice them again, gave some idea of the horrors of war.
c. In various transferred and figurative uses: To unite, combine, join, mend. Also spec. in Biol., to join or insert (a gene or gene fragment).
1803Spirit Public Jrnls. VII. 68 And when they would buy, a whole company splice Their pence.., to make up the price. 1809Malkin Gil Blas v. i. ⁋63 My legacy consisted of a broken fortune to splice. 1810Crabbe Borough x. 245 The long tale, renew'd when last they met, Is spliced anew, and is unfinish'd yet. 1828Creevey in C. Papers (1904) II. 154 He splices so many subjects upon one another, it is difficult to make a selection. 1890D. G. Mitchell Eng. Lands ii. 74 We know..that he takes to the work of mending plays, and splicing good parts together. 1975Nature 18 Dec. 563/1 The genes to be cloned would first be spliced on to either a bacterial plasmid..or on to the DNA of bacteriophage lambda which would then infect the bacterium. 1977Sci. News 29 Jan. 70 The controversial research in question is a class of experiments that..include splicing the genes of a virus or bacteria to partially purified DNA from mammals or birds..known to produce potent toxins or pathogens. 1979Newsweek 4 June 64 One valuable product has already resulted from the work: human insulin, manufactured by splicing fragments of DNA that manufacture the hormone in humans into an intestinal bacterium.
d. To bind, fasten, fix firmly or securely.
1847Disraeli Tancred iii. iii, If you were in the middle of the desert and the least grumbling, you would be spliced on a camel.
e. To make a splice or joint in (a length of film or magnetic or paper tape); to join (film or tape) in, on or up. Occas. intr. (or absol.).
1912F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures xii. 137 Occasionally when a film is being run through the projector it becomes severed by some means or other. Before it can be used again the break must be repaired by splicing the two parts together. 1931Wilkinson & Reis in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures xiv. 200 When film is spliced on a standard splicing machine, the splice crosses the sound track at right angles to its length. 1958W. E. Stewart Magn. Recording Techn. ii. 42 The wire, still useful in some applications, cannot be spliced so easily as tape. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xxiv. 156 The film lab had been very thorough, they had spliced on to the end of the film the incident of my arrest. 1973A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador x. 140 The odd faux pas..would have to be cut; splice in a bedroom scene there. 1974N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 174 Snip a bit off this [tape] and splice it up. 1978L. Davidson Chelsea Murders xxiii. 141 He put in six solid hours at the editing... He compared and cut and spliced till two in the morning. 1978[see splicer 2 b]. 1980S. Hockey Guide Computer Applic. Humanities ii. 25 Sections of corrected [paper] tape can be spliced or glued into the original.
f. Cricket. To strike (the ball) with the splice of the bat, as a mishit.
1982Guardian 19 Feb. 22/2 Botham went for a swinging pull shot, and spliced it tamely but safely to mid⁓wicket.
3. slang.
a. To join in matrimony; to marry. Chiefly in pass.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. vii, Trunnion! Trunnion! turn out and be spliced, or lie still and be damned. 1788in Grose Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 2). 1834Marryat P. Simple (1863) 295 My two sisters are both to be spliced to young squireens in the neighbourhood. 1853C. Brontë Villette xlii, Alfred and I intended to be married in this way almost from the first; we never meant to be spliced in the hum⁓drum way of other people. 1873Mrs. R. T. Ritchie Wks. (1891) I. 148 There goes a parson... Shall I run after him and get him to splice us off-hand?
b. intr. To get married. Also const. with.
1874E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xxiii. 216, I heerd say as he was goin' to splice with a gal that could pray like a angel afire. 1875J. G. Holland Sevenoaks xii. 155, Jim, be ye goin' to splice? 1981T. Heald Murder at Moose Jaw xii. 144 If the old flapper spliced with the colonel she stood to lose a million dollars.
4. intr. To fit into something with a splice.
1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 125 The end [of the spilling line] splicing into the head of the sail.
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†5. trans. and intr. To split. Obs. rare.
1664Evelyn Sylva 74 Making the stroke upward, and with a sharp Bill, so as the weight of an untractable bough do not splice and carry the bark with it. Ibid. 92 In arms of Timber which are very great, chop a nick under it close to the Boal, so meeting it with the down-right strokes, it will be cut without splicing.
Hence spliced |splaɪst| ppl. a., formed, joined, repaired, or reinforced by splicing.
1859T. P. Shaffner Telegraph Man. xli. 597 Fig. 13 is the two ends spliced, having first been cleaned. 1867G. H. Selkirk Guide to Cricket Ground iii. 44 A new handle can be inserted..and the ‘spliced bat’ will be quite as good as before—indeed, many players have their bats spliced at first, thinking it a great improvement. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 250 Though a spliced staff e'en as strong may be As one ne'er broken. 1870Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Suppl. 7/2 A spliced Cricket Bat. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2280/1 Spliced Eye, the rope is bent around a thimble, and the end spliced into the standing part. 1891W. G. Grace Cricket ii. 42 This one [sc. a bat] had a spliced handle with a strip of whalebone down the centre of it, and was very much prized. 1897Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catal. 243/3 Men's Seamless Cotton Half Hose... Spliced heels and toes. 1931Wilkinson & Reis in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures xiv. 201 A similar section of silent track, matching the average density of the spliced tracks, is..cemented into the hole. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 69 Spliced heel, heel reinforced with the same fabric as the stocking. 1970E.-O. Libuda tr. Heinhold's Power Cables & Application xlvi. 457 Brazing is necessary for spliced connections [in copper conductors]. |