For training the field gun, the crew used a special handspike quite different from the garrison handspike.
With the handspike socketed in the eyebolts, lifting the trail and laying the gun was easy.
Swinging round, he saw Magor thrusting a handspike under a huge timber, hanging at the top of the incline.
There was a port which I tried to open, but found it so hard frozen I should need a handspike to start it.
The main hatch was just forward of the gun-room bulkhead; we seized a handspike apiece and went to work to prize the cover open.
It may be that the peculiar way in which Paul Burns eyed him and toyed with the handspikehad some effect on him.
On returning, he found Master Trench occupying his place, and Paul Burns standing beside him with a handspike in his grasp.
Not until he had had several blows on the head with a handspike did he drop dead.
The handspike which secured the chief leak had worked out of its place, and the blankets and boards were forced inwards.
By pressing the board against the blankets, and jamming the handspikedown between it and the outer corner of the bunk, the gush of water was stopped.
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.
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.
The fierce water surrounded me, the handspike unshipped, and, still grasping it, I felt myself borne away into the seething, hissing ocean.
Letting go the bowl, I frantically clutched a handspike sticking in the windlass, the nearest object to me.
After this whispering with Bramble, I went aft with a handspike in my hand; and I had not been there more than two minutes when one of the privateer's-men turned the canvas on one side, and looked up.
The handspike came down upon his head, and he dropped senseless; but the noise roused up the other, and I dealt him a blow more severe than the first.
I levelled the handspike at his head, but he dodged, and returned to the cabin by the way he came; and after that there were no more attempts at recovering the vessel.
I saw him turn away, and heard him thump with a handspike on the deck.
A blow with the handspike sent him overboard, and he went astern; but another was following him, and I stood prepared to receive him.
Sam Baker seized a heavy ash handspike about five feet long, and was on his way to meet his comrade before the others had gained the ice.
The blow broke the handspike in two, and the fool-hardy seaman would soon have paid for his rashness with his life had not friendly and steady hands been near.
Above the mass of heads and shields I could see Jonah's handspike swinging to and fro, and above the confusion of cries and yells I could hear his sonorous shout of defiance: "Come on, Dodanim!
Two or three of you get a handspike on to it," he said.
Then the heavy puncheon generally rolled back and bruised him, or the slipping handspike left its mark upon his skin.
Handspike your anchor where you can tilt her clear before we slack cable.
Unless a very high rate of speed is required, one handspike will control the tow rope; the other strap can be thrown off the drum, and the handspike allowed to lie on the deck ready to be thrown into gear, if necessary.
Wilson attempting to draw out a handspike from under the launch, with an evident purpose of felling him; and when Wales cocked his pistol, and approached, he could only offer some lame excuse for his presence there.
But proceed to the cross-examination: the judge advocate required him to tell the distance between himself and Wilson when the handspike was being pulled by Wilson?
Wilson attempting to draw out a handspike from under the launch, with an evident purpose of felling him; and when Mr. Wales cocked his pistol and approached, he could only offer some lame excuse for his presence there.
This is the amount of the handspike portent, as reported to the Secretary of the Navy among the signs which indicated the immediate danger of the rising and the rescue.
I told him if I saw him pulling at the handspike I should blow his brains out.
He dropped his pipe, and stooped to recover it; and in that moment the mate, with a sudden impulse, snatched up a handspike and dealt him a crashing blow on the head.
One of them seized a flapper, while the other insinuated his handspike under the animal, and by a sudden jerk turned her over.
Striking wildly out with the handspike in a horizontal direction, he had poked the butt end of the implement right between the jaws of the monster, just as it raised its head over the raft with the mouth wide open.
A crane was next erected over the cavity,--a handspike forming one support and an oar the other.
He whipped the handspike out of my hands, and he's craunched it to fragments.
Others we drew together and when we piled them up, father took his handspike and rolled the log, I held it with mine until he got a new hold.
As we neared him we could see his bare arms with the handspike in his hands rolling up the logs.
I have seen him crowd it with a handspike and the stick would roll in opposite the fireplace.
The captain had overheard him, and threatened to knock the first man down with a handspike who ceased to work.
Yes, dat we will," echoed Bambo, flourishing a heavy handspike over his head, with a vehemence which showed that age had not impaired his vigour.
Releasing a three-foot handspike from its lashing beside the gun-carriage, he awaited the next roll of the deck and deftly kicked this handy weapon.
They went to the deck together and the handspikespun out of Jack's grasp.
The iron plate at the end of the handspike had cut deep into the skull, and there was every appearance of a contusion of the brain.
Jackson awoke, as if from a deep sleep, and then stared at Newton, who, as a precaution, held the handspike in his hand.
I implored the brute to desist, but my interference seemed to augment his choler to such a degree, that he seized a handspike to knock the stripling down.
When Seagram regained his deck, he was bleeding profusely from a wound in the head received from a handspike while attempting to board.
As the rusty chain came in, an ominous growling came from below, and Bill snatched his handspike out and raised it aloft.
Up with the anchor," said the skipper, seizing a handspike and thrusting it into the windlass.
It was but a short pull out to the schooner, and Miss Rumbolt was soon on the deck, lavishing endearments on the monkey, and energetically prodding the bear with a handspike to make him growl.
Then I yield," said the skipper, drawing himself up, and delivering the handspike with the air of a defeated admiral tendering his sword.
I'll defend this lady with my life," cried Hezekiah, taking the handspike from Kate, and raising it above his head.
I've put a handspike where I can find it in a moment.
Simpson found his handspike without any difficulty, and placing one end of it under the galley, easily raised it from the deck, while Archie threw himself on his hands and knees, and crawled in under it.
His person was long, straight, and sinewy, and there was a light springiness and elasticity in his step which would have suited a younger man, as he skipped along with a long handspike over his shoulder.
He gave one of the oxen such a severe blow over the loins with a handspike that the creature came home perfectly disabled, just as we wanted his services in the hay-field and harvest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handspike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bar; beam; boom; crank; crow; crowbar; lever; limb; pedal; prize; spar; treadle
