handspike

American  

[hand-spahyk] / ˈhændˌspaɪk /

noun

1. a bar used as a lever.

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handspike British  

/ ˈhændˌspaɪk /

noun

1. a bar or length of pipe used as a lever

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Etymology

Origin of handspike

1605–15; < Dutch handspaak ( see hand, spoke ²), with -spaak replaced by spike ¹

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Example Sentences

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handspike

Indeed, for about half a minute it hung stationary, though Harry, who dared not draw out his handspike, shouted frantic encouragement to the straining beasts.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss

"Aye, Master Clifford----" "But, sir, you described him as being as thin as a handspike."

From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

That peculiar gentleman-like and military air, even shouldering a handspike, could not be mistaken.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe

Then one threw down his axe and another his handspike and they all sneaked off toward the bow of the ship.

From My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908 by Frederick W. Browne

My "handspike" was turned over, and with it dissipated the disgust with which I had carried it.

From Four Years A Scout and Spy by E. C. Downs

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