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handspike

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted adehiknpsStarts with HEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From hand + spike.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • “Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!—jump!”—was the next command, and the crew sprang for the handspikes.
  • Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried...

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