handspike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"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 was the height of a handspike."
"“Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!—jump!”—was the next command, and the crew sprang for the handspikes."
"Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried..."

From hand + spike.

handspikes (plural) hand-spike (alternative)

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