hand-spike

One huge buck, bawling and with tears streaming down his face, made a dash for the hatch, but Sullivan knocked him flat with a hand-spike, threw him into place, and terrified the others by shaking a cat-o'-nine-tails at them, to let them see what they might hope to get if they misbehaved.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

One huge buck, bawling and with tears streaming down his face, made a dash for the hatch, but Sullivan knocked him flat with a hand-spike, threw him into place, and terrified the others by shaking a cat-o'-nine-tails at them, to let them see what they might hope to get if they misbehaved.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

"Ere he could put up his hand to guard himself, for I could see it all in an instant, as I emerged from the companion-hatchway, the giant negro, who had abandoned his pistol for a hand-spike, brought down this fearful weapon with a tremendous thwack on the side of my poor friend's head with the result you have seen."

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

"It was done with a hand-spike," explained the other, groaning with pain as we assisted him to a seat at the further end of the table, where the skipper's armchair was drawn out for him to fix him up more comfortably.

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

Englishman, caught up a long hand-spike, bigger than himself, and with it knocked down two of the Haytians to his own cheek.

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

Kirkpatrick would give him two dollars, to move the logs with a common hand-spike.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 Various

The ground on which we stood was level and very soft, and, having no hand-spike, we had to move the trail of the gun by main force.

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore

Lashing his victim's arm to a sharp sword tied to the windlass, he knocked the unfortunate Lanoix upon the deck with a hand-spike.

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910

Seizing a hand-spike, he shot it out at the man who knew the law.

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910

At this juncture that young beggar, forgetting all my good training in the manly art, and reverting to his Slavic barbaric methods of defence, went in with a hand-spike, yelling, and, I regret to say, cursing, till I thought he had gone drunk or mad.

The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Ralph Connor 1898