Handspikes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HANDSPIKES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• HANDSPIKE, a bar used as a lever
• a wooden rod with an iron tip, used as a lever on board ship and by artillery soldiers.

Words related to HANDSPIKES

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How to use HANDSPIKES in a sentence

• Others made the attempt, but were knocked flat on the deck, and the crew kept watch over them with handspikes and cutlasses, until they should receive orders from the captain.
• Even the handspikes had gone in the launch, and two of the buoys had been left with the anchors, on the Irish coast.
• In a hand-to-hand fight which followed two more were killed with handspikes, and the remaining four were overpowered and sent adrift in a small boat.
• Meanwhile 9, 10 take up handspikes, and place themselves at rear of bracket conveniently to heave forward or aft.
• Guns on covered decks may also be dismounted by means of a muzzle-lashing, the runner and the train-tackles, assisted by the handspikes.
• Handspikes are to be made of well-seasoned white hickory, of the form and dimensions directed by the Bureau.
• They were as stiff as hand-spikes after that long spell in the maintop.
• If it comes to handspikes, two can play at that game.
• The men with hand-spikes roll them, one upon the top of the other, until the heap is seven or eight feet high, and ten or twelve broad.
• I remember at one time the cook, the carpenter, the second assistant-surgeon, and an able seaman contended with handspikes for the honor of betraying my confidence.
• Blows with handspikes were of common occurrence, and brutality and violence generally were the order of the day.
• Next morning Dennis picked out ash-trees and hickories small enough to make handspikes and skids and the rearing of the shanty began.

Similar words containing HANDSPIKE without suffix s

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