I must have a cold chisel, a handspike, and some line.

The locks also require a handspike to open the paddles.

He swung the handspike so that the shoe smashed the corner of the desk.

Farrell suffered a blow to the head from a handspike thrown by Donnelly.

Artillerymen leaped to a Napoleon's handspike, began swinging the twelve-pounder toward the stand of trees.

They could only be loaded by heavy blows with a handspike (a heavy wooden bar used to move a gun).

"Yes, sir," he said confidently, kicking a handspike.

"My dear chap," said he, "you'd knock down the chief mate, and he'd spread you out with a handspike.

The gunners rolled a new wheel forward, while the officer commanding the small battery ran forward with a handspike.

One seaman fought the Chinese with a handspike before being wounded; he later died on May 16 along with the captain.

Blade snatched up a handspike, rammed it under the gun carriage, and began heaving the gun around.

One unusual feature of the waterway is the need for a long piece of wood, called a handspike, to open the paddles on the locks.

A gunner was swinging a handspike, swatted aside a sword, crushed a Frenchman's skull, then he was pushed on by the men behind.

A handspike is a metal bar or pipe that is used as a lever for prying or leverage, similar to a crowbar.

I had to argy wi' them aboot it wi' a handspike.

Now, to elevate the gun, you -' 'Lift up the breech using a handspike as a lever,' Gilbert said.

Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum.

At a word from Jackson, the gun was run out and Maxton and Rossi leapt back, each grabbing a handspike, ready to train the gun.

'If the powder is all like that,' thought Jack, crouching over number five, his handspike ready to elevate the gun, 'we might as well try boarding right away.

"Slowly the night wore away, for with the fear of Handspike Tom before my eyes I did not dare to go to sleep, and at last the dawn came.

'All surrendered, three wounded, and this chap here - ' he pointed to the man hit by the handspike - 'and one dead, the one you shot, sir.'

The other gunners fetched shot and powder, sometimes heaved on a handspike or pushed on the wheels as the gun was re laid then swabbed and loaded again.

One of his soldiers, Gunner Alfred Smith, saved his life by killing his assailant with the handspike from a gun, and remained standing over him fighting off others.

No sooner had he put his foot over the threshold than a pistol flashed in his face, and he was knocked down, at the same moment, by a blow from a handspike.