[f. EYE sb.1 + SPLICE sb.] A splice made by turning up the end of a rope, and interlacing its strands with those of the upper part.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), N n. The eye-splice being intended to make a sort of eye … at the end of a rope.
1851. H. Melville, Moby-Dick, lx. 312. Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an eye-splice or loop.
1867. in Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 284.
