The sea-mans dictionary, or, An exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe together with an explanation of all the termes and phrases used in the practique of navigation / composed by Henry Manwaring ...

To Splice.

Is to make fast the ends of roapes, one into the other, by opening the strands, at the end of both the roapes, and then with a fid, laying every strand orderly one into an other; also when we would make an eye, at the end of a roape, we take the end of the roape and undoe the strands, and so opening the strands, where we would have the splice, with a tide, we draw in the ends of the strands, and so wea∣ving of them orderly, make the splise, and so sease the ends downe with some synner, or the like: There are these sorts of splises; The round splise, that is the splising of the ends of two roapes, one into an other, as I have described; the count-splise, that is, when the ends of either roapes are splised into the other roapes, some distance from the end, and not one end in an other (as the first), then they will make a long slit (as it were betwixt them) which is the reason of the name.