mar·line·spike

also mar·lin·spike (mär′lĭn-spīk′) or mar·ling·spike (-lĭng-spīk′)

n. Nautical

A pointed metal spike, used to separate strands of rope or wire in splicing.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

marlinspike - a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing)

marlinespike, marlingspike

hand tool - a tool used with workers' hands

Translations

marlinspike

n → Marlspieker m, → Splisseisen nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

Another time he dropped a steel marlinspike from the mizzen crosstree.

View in context

When he gave the signal I tossed the marlinspike. It struck the planking of the wharf a resounding smash, bounced along fifteen or twenty feet, and was pounced upon by the amazed onlookers.

View in context

--why thunder alive, man, his stern was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out.

View in context

The pool, the SAMT, Marlinspike (Naval rope work), not to mention the excellent guidance of the Recruit Division Commanders and the training officers here that provide the example.

Setting the standard

The other co-founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, left Facebook last year to form the Signal Foundation with Moxie Marlinspike. Notably, Acton joined the #DeleteFacebook bandwagon after the Cambridge Analytica news broke.

WhatsApp CEO Leaves After Facebook Reportedly Decides to Weaken Encryption

performance of marlinspike seamanship or an ancient ballad sung about a

Maritime Folklife of New York City's Forgotten Borough

8, a spike in its downloads "started immediately, and the rate of new users has continued to increase day after day" said Moxie Marlinspike, co-founder of the app.

Will Trump presidency quash digital privacy? Skittish security groups and marketers wonder what's ahead, and already some are actively taking a stand to protect consumers

"The WhatsApp encryption system, developed by the hacker who goes by the name of Moxie Marlinspike, blinds the company to its customers' communications.

Will Facebook and Google follow WhatsApp's encryption lead?

Marlinspike's gumption could impact the way mortgage fraud risk and privacy are viewed for years to come.

Happy do year!

"WhatsApp is integrating Text secure into the most popular messaging app in the world, where people exchange billions of messages a day," says Moxie Marlinspike, Open Whisper System's creator and a well known software developer in the cryptography community.

WhatsApp update brings end-to-end encryption for Android users

According to TechHive, co-founder of Open Whisper Systems, partner of Cynaogen in the project, Moxie Marlinspike said that they aim to provide everyone access to advanced secure communication methods that are easy and reliable to use.

Soon, Android phones to have encrypted text message feature