α. 1600s handspeeke, 1600s handspiek, 1600s 1800s– handspeak, 1600s– handspeek, 1700s handspik, 1800s hanspeak.
β. 1600s handspeck, 1800s handspec.
单词 | handspeek |
释义 | handspeekn.α. 1600s handspeeke, 1600s handspiek, 1600s 1800s– handspeak, 1600s– handspeek, 1700s handspik, 1800s hanspeak. β. 1600s handspeck, 1800s handspec. Chiefly Nautical and Gunnery. Now U.S. regional (chiefly north-eastern) and rare. = handspike n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun] lever1297 speke1366 crowa1400 gavelock1497 prisea1500 handspoke1513 porter1538 sway1545 handspike1559 heaver1598 coleweigh1600 handspeek1644 forcer1649 ringer1650 ripping-chisel1659 pinch1685 crow-spike1692 Betty1700 wringer1703 crowbar1748 spike1771 pry1803 jemmy1811 crow-iron1817 dog1825 pinchbar1837 jimmy1848 stick1848 pry bar1872 peiser1873 nail bar1929 cane1930 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 52 They use a roape to set taught the shrowdes, with wale-knots, one end made fast to the shrowdes, to the other, the Lanniers are brought, and so with a hand-speeke turning it, they set taught the Halliards. 1672 D. Manly Hexham's Woorden-boeck (new ed.) Handt-speecke, Bar, or Hand-Spiek. 1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 119 Nautical Staticks, and Mechanicks, relating to Pullies and Crows, Handspecks. 1703 W. Godsoe Deposition 31 Mar. in Province & Court Rec. Maine (1958) IV. 287 I had Like to have had my Brains Beaten out not Long Before By sd Caine and his wife the on with an handspik and the other with an axe If I had not Bin Rescued By Corporall Crockett and Corporall Haley; and Receved a Great Blow on my head with a handspeek that..stund me. 1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Espéque, a handspeek, being a wooden Leaver, us'd instead of an iron Crow, to traverse the Ordnance, or to the Windlass to heave up the Anchor at Sea. 1802 I. Moseley Narr. Captivity John Fillmore & his Escape from Pirates 15 With this resolution, and as much fortitude as I could muster, I went on board to Phillips, and stood by a hanspeak that lay upon the deck. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 123 Handspec. 1888 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 589 Here in New England the word ‘handspike’ used to be called handspeek. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 176 Handspeak, a wooden lever; a handspike; used for moving heavy things. 1917 Dial. Notes 4 393 [North-eastern Ohio] Handspeek, handspike. Not the prevailing form. Also N.Y. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1644 |
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