handspike


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a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever

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A BOAT club dance troupe will make history in Mirfield when they perform what is believed to be the world's first 'handspike dance' at a rally open day next month.
The1-million-lawsuit against the National Enquirer and its source, Georgia music industry veteran Derrick Handspike, comes a week after the troubled performer surrendered to authorities in Los Angeles to begin serving a 55-day prison term for a driving under the influence conviction.
Author Derrick Handspike said: "They were planning a small wedding, probably in Las Vegas, with just the two of them and their daughter."
The ferryman was loosing the boat from the shore, when, to his utter dismay, up rode his master upon a foaming steed, and with a look "like the sunshine when it Hashes on steel," drew his loaded pistol, and plainly told the ferryman--"If you loose that boat to convey my Negro to the opposite bank, I'll blow your brains out!" The Negro in an instant seized a handspike, and.
Clark Russell observes that Dana, like Melville after him, "seiz[ed] the pen for a handspike [and] prized open the sealed lid under which the merchant-seaman lay caverned" (149).
involuntarily I paused on my handspike, and told Queequeg to do the same, thinking of the perils we both ran, in starting on the voyage with such a devil for a pilot.
"With an overall length of 17in, this monstrous handspike will not only protect your grip, but will send your foes running in the other direction."
Derrick Handspike's book Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But...