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

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jellybun | 20:39 Sat 14th Apr 2012 | Crosswords
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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.
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I put Splice, but await confirmation from others as cricket is not my top category.
I'd say spline, as the piece of wood intersecting the handle and the blade http://dictionary.ref...com/browse/spline?s=t
We also put Spline.
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..."
Two all, new balls , please....ooops wrong sport....
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Thank you all, I think I'll go with the majority and put spline.
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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.
But Jellybun, the answer is SPLICE!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/splice
OED seems to settle it, that's the bit of the bat I was thinking of!
Ahem !
Sorry Jellybun, overlapped your last post
Read step 5 how to make a cricket bat

I have put splice


http://www.cricketbat...ricket-bat-making.asp
Always called the splice when I played!

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