handspike
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of handspike
1605–15; < Dutch handspaak ( see hand, spoke 2), with -spaak replaced by spike 1
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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
As they approached the level at the foot of the slope, the man who drove them ran back, and slipping his handspike under it, swung the butt of the log round an obstacle.
From The Greater Power by W. Herbert Dunton
Once or twice the handspike or peevie had been torn from his grasp, and the lives of his comrades had been placed in peril.
From The Greater Power by W. Herbert Dunton
Then the heavy puncheon generally rolled back and bruised him, or the slipping handspike left its mark upon his skin.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
He had caught up a handspike in one fist, a tiller rope with a slipping noose in the other, and thus equipped had jumped down into the gun-deck.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
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