backsplice

US: (bak′splīs′)

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

back•splice  (bak′splīs′), n., v., -spliced, -splic•ing. 
n. 

1. Textiles a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.

v.t. 

2. Textiles to make a backsplice in (a rope end).

• back² + splice