Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piked lever, usually from 6 to 8 feet long, used in handling floating logs.
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Examples
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A heavy iron hand-pike was transformed by a blacksmith into a large hook, which was fixed to an iron chain belonging to the anchor of a small-boat, and as that extraordinary fishing-tackle was not of a sufficient length, they added to it a hawser, forty fathoms in length and of the size of a woman's wrist.
Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820
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A heavy iron hand-pike was transformed by a blacksmith into a large hook, which was fixed to an iron chain belonging to the anchor of a small-boat, and as that extraordinary fishing-tackle was not of a sufficient length, they added to it a hawser, forty fathoms in length and of the size of a woman's wrist.
Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820
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