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HANSPIKE

Volume 501 · 69 words · 1797 Edition

or HANDSPEC, a lever or piece of strong wood, for raising by the hand great weights, &c. It is five or six feet long, cut thin and crooked at the lower end, that it may get the easier between things that are to be separated, or under any thing that is to be raised. It is better than a crow of iron, because its length allows a better poise.