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单词 handspoke
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handspoken.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)spəʊk/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌspoʊk/, Scottish English /ˈhan(d)spok/
Forms:

α. Scottish pre-1700 handspack, pre-1700 1700s– handspaik, pre-1700 1700s– handspake, 1700s andspake, 1700s handspeck, 1900s– haandspik (Shetland).

β. 1700s– handspoke.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: hand n., English spake , spoke n.
Etymology: Originally < hand n. + spake, Scots variant of spoke n., after early modern Dutch handspaecke crowbar, lever (although this is first attested later: 1588 in Kiliaan; Dutch handspaak ; < hand hand n. + spaecke bar, pole (Middle Dutch spāke : see spoke n.)); compare German Handspake (late 16th cent. as handspacke ). In later (non-Scottish) use in sense 1 probably independently re-formed < hand n. + spoke n. Compare later handspike n., handspeek n.In Scottish use in sense 2 the form handspoke represents an anglicization.
Originally and chiefly Scottish. Now historical and rare.
1. Chiefly Nautical and Gunnery. = handspike n. 1.
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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
1513 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 481 For jc xix sperris to mak hand spakis of [etc.],..deliverit..to the greit schip.
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 403 Jeistis of aik for platformis, handspakis, [etc.]..to the said artailyearie.
1585 in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1883) App. ii. 193/1 xij hand spaikis..for single falconis.
1673 Leith Customs f. 42, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Handspake Some ock timber, 5 dozen hand spacks,..and 4 fatham burn wood.
1740 Caledonian Mercury 7 Apr. Here the Long-boats hooked her in, but were beat off with Hand-spakes.
1773 Scots Farmer 1 197 One man may raise a stone of greater weight, than six men will do with their hands, pinches or handspakes.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 197 Battens and a' kinkind o' sticks, Clodmells and barrow-trams and picks, And handspakes that gave lounderin' licks, Flicker'd in fierce vibration.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 444/1 In the two last [sc. windlass and capstan] the power of men is applied at the extremities of handspokes or levers inserted at their opposite extremities in holes made in the axle or barrel to receive them.
1931 Jrnl. Antiq. Assoc. Brit. Isles 2 77 The mechanism by which the portcullis was lifted in the Byward Tower..was by double rollers controlled by a wheel with hand-spokes.
2. A long wooden bar used in carrying things by hand; spec. either of a pair of poles used in carrying a coffin (cf. spoke n. 2c). Cf. handspike n. 2. Now historical.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > funeral equipment > [noun] > pole to carry coffin
spokec1650
handspoke1709
handspike1816
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > pole or staff > bar of wood
handspoke1709
1709 Session Bk. Glasserton MS 11 Aug. The Session appoynts Patrick McKie, treasurer, to provyde a box for keeping of the mortcloath and sufficient hand specks as soon as possible.
1727 P. Walker Remarkable Passages 140 Friends would not suffer them to put their Hands to a Hand-spaik, tho' they offered.
1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XV. 372 However distant any part of the parish was from the place of interment, it was customary for the attendants to carry the corpse on hand spokes.
1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. i. 269 The carrying-lever, or hand-spoke, is used in pairs for carrying tubs of plants or other bodies or materials furnished with hooks or bearing staples.
1873 D. Hogg Life & Times J. Wightman vi. 122 It was customary to carry the coffin on handspokes, as it was believed that no horse would ever thrive which had once drawn a corpse.
1902 J. Thomson Recoll. Speyside Parish (ed. 2) xxiv. 112 Our newly resident villager got ‘the reddin stroke’. His eye was knocked out with the end of a hand-spoke.
1922 J. Inkster Mansie's Röd 119 Bi dis time [at a funeral] da men wis fix'd da twa fowereen staangs 'at Geordie Moad wis taen frae da banks fir haandspiks.
1975 Recorded Interview (Univ. Edinb.: School of Sc. Stud. Sound Archive) (SA1975.09.21) (MS transcript) The coffin was set on two chairs and two upturned tubs that they tied this—handspaiks, you know, that—things that are meant to carry, you know—that was tied on with fishing lines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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