📚 noun • entry_id 4514
handspike
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espeque
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
I would not take a rood of land from Frederic to be appointed to a man-of-war to-morrow morning, for I looked on it as his (God grant it may be long ere he touch it!) ever since I…
“Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!—jump!”—was the next command, and the crew sprang for the handspikes.
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