marlinspike in English
noun
1
a pointed metal tool used by sailors to separate strands of rope or wire, especially in splicing.
There's no technobabbling about phased inducers or flux capacitors or what-have-you; the ‘space-ships’ are gorgeously retro, with sails and masts and marlinspikes .
noun
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1. Take your hands off the spokes... or I'll bend a marlinspike around your loaf!
2. You wouldn't happen to be related to the Haddocks of Marlinspike Hall, would you?
3. The Boatswain's mate will train, direct, and supervises ship's personnel in all activities relating to using the marlinspike
4. Convergence was a proposed strategy for replacing SSL certificate authorities, first put forth by Moxie Marlinspike in August 2011 while giving a talk titled "SSL and the Future of Authenticity" at the Black Hat security conference