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Daily Telegraph General Knowledge (GK) Saturday April 14th 2012

jellybun | 20:39 Sat 14th Apr 2012 | Crosswords

14 Answers

Confirmation please on 8d Section of a cricket bat just under the shoulder. 6L
- P - I - E. Is the answer Spline or splice only Google is giving both? Help appreciated.

Get on this to annoy someone?

wick and cogently - both correct

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ladyalex

I put Splice, but await confirmation from others as cricket is not my top category.

boxtops

I'd say spline, as the piece of wood intersecting the handle and the blade http://dictionary.ref...com/browse/spline?s=t

JoolsTwo

We also put Spline.

Lie-in King

I went with 'spliCe', as per Chambers - the following links would seem to corroborate this -

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/splice

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spline

OED (Online) also gives -

splice - "...Cricket. The v-shaped tang of a bat-handle, which forms a joint with the blade; the joint itself..."

ladyalex

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/crickgl.htm#splice

ladyalex

Two all, new balls , please....ooops wrong sport....

jellybun

Question Author

Thank you all, I think I'll go with the majority and put spline.

jellybun

Question Author

I have just gone back and seen Lie-in King's very detailed answer and he looks to be right with splice, so I'm changing my mind and putting splice. Thanks everyone for your help.