handspike
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of handspike
1605–15; < Dutch handspaak ( hand, spoke 2 ), with -spaak replaced by spike 1
Example Sentences
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In many places the guns had to leave the road, and to be hauled up difficulties with tackle and handspikes.
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A great deal of the earliest logging on the Sound was done exclusively by hand, the logs being thrown into the water by handspikes and towed to the mill on the tide by skiffs.
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He was spitted on a hickory sapling, twelve feet long, supported on crutches, and turned by handspikes.
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The mate, after desperately defending himself with his heavy handspike, and breaking the skulls of several assailants, received a fearful gash across the face, destroying both eyes.
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Better get a hatchet and handspikes, Cassidy," said Captain Dove, "and break the door in.
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