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splicing, vbl. n.|ˈsplaɪsɪŋ|
[f. splice v. Cf. Du. splitsing, G. splissung, splitsung, NFris. splessing, Da. splidsning, Sw. splissning.]
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1. a. The action or operation of making a splice or splices.
1524–5Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 327 Paid for Splisyng of v bell Ropis, v d. 1627[see splice n. 1]. a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 339/2 The Splicing and Bending of Cables. 1758J. Blake Plan Mar. Syst. 7 Exercising those who are received into the service, in knotting and splicing. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) V. 1929 Our spare hands were employed incessantly, in knotting and splicing. 1912F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures xii. 138 To facilitate..splicing a small clamping device is used. 1931L. E. Clark in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures ix. 144 In splicing a certain amount is lost at each end. 1973Screen Spring/Summer 42 The montage in question is not..necessarily montage in the narrow sense (ie splicing). 1980Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 14/6 The scientists..have modified common laboratory bacteria by ‘gene splicing’ to produce human interferon.
fig.1829Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit. Wks. 1843 V. 485 Now as to Court Christian... Nothing requisite to be done otherwise than in the quiet way, by splicing; by splicing performed imperceptibly.
b. attrib., chiefly in the names of tools used in splicing, as splicing-block, splicing-clamp, splicing fid, splicing-hammer, splicing machine, splicing-piece, splicing-shackle, splicing-tape; also splicing process.
1750T. R. Blanckley Nav. Expos. 55 Spliceing fidds are used to splice or fasten Ropes together, and are made tapering at one End. 1858H. Bushnell Serm. New Life 129 He was not obliged to accommodate his ignorance..by any such splicing process in words. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 55 The ends are joined together by a splicing-piece or shackle. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2280/1 Splicing-hammer, -shackle. 1884Ibid. Suppl. 842/2 Splicing Clamp. 1927E. G. Lutz Motion-Picture Cameraman xi. 241 Joining films is made with the aid of a splicing-block which has as its main feature series of teeth over which the film-perforations fit. 1931Splicing machine [see splice v. 2 e]. 1958J. Tall Techniques of Magnetic Recording x. 161 The splicing tape should be laid down..at an angle. 1974H. Bursten Questions & Answers about Tape Recording xviii. 246 The leading edge of the splicing tape presents a resistance.
2. = splice-grafting (see splice n. 3).
1653Bellingham Plat's Gard. Eden 118 Grafting whip⁓stock wise, and letting the cions into the stock by a slit... Some call this the Splicing way. 1672F. Drope Fruit Trees iii. 40 Whip-grafting (otherwise called Backing, Packing, or Splicing).
3. The spliced part of a rope, etc.; a splice.
1892Law Times XCIV. 79/2 The covering of the splicing of the rope had become frayed. 1895R. B. C. Graham Notes Menteith v. 72 A rod with as many splicings as Petrucchio's bridle.
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†4. A piece split off; a slender slip of wood. Obs.—1
1725Family Dict. s.v. Ozier, The Peelings or Splicings of the former [osier] are used by Gardeners and Coopers. |