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▪ I. handspike, n.|ˈhændspaɪk|
Also 7 -spiek, -speck, 7–8 -speek, 9 -spec.
[ad. early mod. Du. handspaecke, mod. Du. handspaak, in same sense (f. spaak, MDu. spake pole, rod). In Eng. app. assimilated to spike (or in quot. 1615 to pike).]
1. A wooden bar, used as a lever or crow, chiefly on ship-board and in artillery-service. It is rounded at the one end by which it is held and square at the other, and usually shod with iron.
1615E. S. Britain's Buss in Arb. Garner III. 627 Two or three handpikes, of ash. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 31 A gunners quadrant, a hand spike, a crow of iron, to mount a peece. 1648–78Hexham Dutch Dict., Handt-speecke, Bar, or Hand-Spiek. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 119 Nautical Staticks, and Mechanicks, relating to Pullies and Crows, Handspecks. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), A Handspeek, a Wooden Leaver, used in stead of a Crow of Iron to traverse the Ordnance [1706 (ed. Kersey), or to heave in a Windlass to weigh up the Anchor]. 1748F. Smith Voy. Disc. I. 53 The Ice..was cleared from the Head of the Ship with Handspikes. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xiv, Jack knocked him down with a handspike. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 123 Handspec. 1860–75Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 782 Handspike, a strong wooden bar, used as a lever to move the windlass and capstan in heaving the anchor.
2. Incorrectly for Sc. handspake, handspoke.
3. attrib. and Comb., as handspike-end, handspike-man; handspike-ring (Artill.), the thimble on the trail transom of a gun, for the handspike by which it is manœuvred.
1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 208 The assistant handspikemen will attend the compressors. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iv. xx, Pretty handy with a handspike-end.
▪ II. ˈhandspike, v.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To move or strike with a handspike.
1776in Harper's Mag. Sept. (1883) 547/2 In the act of hand-spiking up the Canon into the embrasure. 1837Marryat Dog-fiend vi, He never would have handspiked me. |