handspike

• He seized a handspike, and I thought he was about to dash out my brains on the spot. —  Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication
• I want to have a go at that chap as fetched me a crack with a handspike, and I shan't feel happy till I have; so now then, my lads What's the good o' being obst'nit, Tommy?" —  In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"
• To make a sailor shoulder a handspike, and walk fore and aft the deck, like a sentry, is the most ignominious punishment that could be put upon him. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• The idea that I might do so encouraged me to proceed If I could get out of my confined space I knew that I should have a better chance of falling in with food, but how to get out was the question I crept back for the handspike, and tried to move some of the bales, but all my efforts were unavailing. —  Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures
• With this I seized the handspike, and for a time pursued them. —  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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