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 ( hand, spoke ² ), with -spaak replaced by spike ¹

Example Sentences

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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Better get a hatchet and handspikes, Cassidy," said Captain Dove, "and break the door in.

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

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Then the heavy puncheon generally rolled back and bruised him, or the slipping handspike left its mark upon his skin.

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