handspike
IPA: hˈændspˈaɪk
noun
- A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
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Examples of "handspike" in Sentences
- A handspike is similar to a crowbar.
- He thrust a finger like a handspike towards Washington.
- Captain: You did not see this man throw a handspike at his overseer.
- Farrell suffered a blow to the head from a handspike thrown by Donnelly.
- A well run furnace should be able to be tapped with a handspike and a hammer.
- It was a rude handspike and hardly equal to the work, for when she threw her weight upon the free end it bent and crackled.
- The prisoner, however, shortly detailed the real facts of the case, making use of his hands and fingers to show the relative positions of the log, branch and handspike.
- Hyped by the manufacturer as a "monstrous handspike" -- paging Dr. Freud -- that "will send your foes running in the other direction," the 17-inch gauntlet retails for $67.
- At his order, she threw her weight on the end of a quickly extemporized handspike, easing the pressure and listening to her husband's groans, while Malemute Kid attacked the tree with his axe.
- Porter, whose courage was none of the fiercest, and who had been for years given over to that terror of discipline which servitude induces, made but a feeble attempt at resistance, and forcing the handspike from him, the sentry, Jones, rushed aft to help the pilot.
- All the gang, having now arrived at the scene of action, were quickly distributed to their several tasks; and Ralph and some others each obtained a wooden handspike, with which to roll out the trunks of trees or carry them upon to the fires for which they were designed.
- With his left hand — for he was as ambidexter as a brave writer of this age requires — he caught up a handspike, and hurled it so truly along the line of torches that only two were left to blink; with his right he flung the last bale upon the shelf; then leaped out after it, and hurried it away.