handspike
handspike · handspikes
ганшпуг
Handspeiche, Handspake, Spillspake
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor,…A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
Meaning
1 sensesA bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
Handspeiche, Handspake, Spillspake
ганшпу́гganšpúg
a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever
Translations
5 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
a bar or lever used in a windlass:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a bar or lever used in a windlass:
Origin
From hand + spike.From hand + spike.
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