Commander Beaumont's roller handspike has been adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
No. 14 ships the trail-handspike and tends it with No. 15. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
He used to wield a handspike at logging bees in Huron County. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
BEAUMONT, his roller handspike adopted for the service 3; 75; 238. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
Captain: You did not see this man throw a handspike at his overseer. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
He was a little, shrewd man, and knew a handspike from a capstan bar. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
No. 6 unbolts trail-wheel, and ships handspike in its socket of trail. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
May I never lift another handspike if that ain't gospel, that's all your. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
George carried a handspike, a weapon he had brought along from the collier vessel. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
Artillerymen leaped to a Napoleon's handspike, began swinging the twelve-pounder toward the stand of trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Each of the thirty, as valiant heroes as ever trod a plank or fisted handspike, tried and failed -- and tried again with. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
It was a rude handspike and hardly equal to the work, for when she threw her weight upon the free end it bent and crackled. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 24] Reference
A gunner was swinging a handspike, swatted aside a sword, crushed a Frenchman's skull, then he was pushed on by the men behind. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Trafalgar]
George, with a bound, gained the wall, where, back against the stonework, he stood ready with the handspike and the clubbed musket. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
There were the chests, and while she twitched and whined at my elbow I rummaged for a handspike and stuck it under the nearest lid. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Dragon]
"Stand by there!" shouted ` old Hankey Pankey 'to Adams, who had our return signal rocket all ready, slung on to a handspike for a stick. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
Nobody broke his back or his handspike by his efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
With this I seized the handspike, and for a time pursued them. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass] Reference
I had a handspike in my hand with which I had been helping to roll the kegs. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of Scarthey] Reference
The lashing must be well beaten with handspike or pick handle to tighten it up. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition] Reference
There were several other pieces of timber, a handspike or two, and an oar -- which. From Wordnik.com. [Ran Away to Sea] Reference
He seized a handspike, and I thought he was about to dash out my brains on the spot. From Wordnik.com. [Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication] Reference
He was still striking the lad, when old Tom stepped between them, grasping a handspike. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars] Reference
Letting go the bowl, I frantically clutched a handspike sticking in the windlass, the nearest object to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific] Reference
I got a handspike and battered that coon's head with it; but he wouldn't let go, and before others came up to help he had killed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain Ship] Reference
He watched me as a cat watches a mouse, or I might have brought a handspike down on his head and ended his troubles and some of my own. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain Ship] Reference
"Hist! what sort o 'brute's that?" he exclaimed, seizing a handspike that chanced to be near him and hurling it at the head of the brute. From Wordnik.com. [Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader] Reference
The fierce water surrounded me, the handspike unshipped, and, still grasping it, I felt myself borne away into the seething, hissing ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific] Reference
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