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Handspike

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.

    "I would not take a rood of land from Frederic to be appointed to a man-of-war to-morrow morning, for I looked on it as his (God grant it may be long ere he touch it!) ever since I was the height of a handspike."

  2. 2
    a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever wordnet

Etymology

From hand + spike.

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