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Definition: Handspike |
HandspikeNoun1. A metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "handspike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Handspike |
| English words defined with "handspike": Capstan bar ♦ Traversing plate. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
handspike | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "handspike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | levë (crow, crowbar, helper, joystick, lever, pry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спица на кабестан или лебедка, ръчен лост. (various references) | |
Danish | haandspage. (various references) | |
Dutch | handspaak. (various references) | |
Farsi | میله اهرم (Lever), اهرم چوبی , اهرم (Crow, Crowbar, Lever, Pry). (various references) | |
French | anspect. (various references) | |
German | Gangspillspake. (various references) | |
Greek | μανιβέλα (bar, crank, crank lever, crank s, overhung crank, winch), χειρομοχλός. (various references) | |
Hungarian | emelõrúd (crowbar, Jack, lever). (various references) | |
Indonesian | linggis (crowbar). (various references) | |
Italian | aspa. (various references) | |
Manx | groe laue. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andspikehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | simpático (appealing, genial, like, likelihood, lovable, nice, pleasant, prepossession, sympathetic), alavanca (arm, crow, crowbar, crow-bar, handle, heaver, Jack, lever, pry). (various references) | |
Romanian | pârghie de manevrat. (various references) | |
Russian | ганшпуг. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ćuskija (jemmy). (various references) | |
Spanish | espeque (beam, capstan-bar, crow-bar, perch, pole beacon, single-pile beacon, spindle). (various references) | |
Swedish | spak (lever, manageable). (various references) | |
Turkish | manivela (cantilever, heaver, lever, lever arm, prise, prize, pry, tappet), kaldıraç (heaver, Jack, lever, prise, prize, pry). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "handspike": handspikes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-k-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: deanship, headpins, pinheads, skinhead. | |
-2 letters: aphides, daphnes, diphase, dishpan, hankies, headpin, inphase, kidnaps, pandies, peakish, pinhead, shanked, spanked. | |
-3 letters: aphids, danish, daphne, hanked, hankie, hasped, khadis, khedas, kidnap, kinase, kneads, paiked, pained, pashed, pekans, pekins, phased, pinked, pished, sained, sandhi, shaken, shaped, shapen, shined, snaked, sniped, spiked, spined. | |
-4 letters: aides, anise, ankhs, aphid, aphis, apish, ashed, ashen, aside, asked, aspen, dashi, deans, deash, dhaks, dikes, dines, dinks, ephas, hades, haiks, hakes, hands, hanks, hanse, heads, heaps, hides, hiked, hikes, hinds, ideas, inked, kadis, kains, kanes, kaphs, kepis, khadi, khans, kheda, kinas, kinds, kines, knaps, knead, knish, naked, napes, neaps, nides, nipas, padis, paiks, pains, paise, paned, panes, peaks, peans, peins, pekan, pekin, pends, penis, phase, pians, pikas, piked, pikes, pinas, pined, pines, pinks, sadhe, saned, sapid, sedan, sepia, shade, shake, shank, shape, sheik, shend, shied, shine, siped, skean, skein, skied, snake, sneak, sneap, snide, snipe, spade, spaed, spahi, spake, spank, speak, spean, spend, spied, spike, spine. | |
-5 letters: aide, aids, ains, akin, ands, anes, anis, ankh, aped, apes, apse, dahs, dais, daks, dank, daps, dash, dean, deni, dens, desk, dhak, dies, dike, dine, dink, dins, dips, dish, disk, edhs, ends, epha, hade, haed, haen, haes, haik, hake, hand, hank, haps, hasp, head, heap, hens, hide, hied, hies, hike, hind, hins, hips, hisn, idea, ides, inks, kadi, kaes, kain, kane, kaph, keas, kens, kepi, keps, khan, khis, kids, kina, kind, kine, kins, kips, knap, nape, naps, neap, nide, nipa, nips, padi, pads, paid, paik, pain, pane, pans, pase, pash, peak, pean, peas, peds, pehs, pein, pend, pens, phis, pian, pias, pied, pies, pika, pike, pina, pine, pink, pins, pish, sade, sadi, said, sain, sake, saki, sand, sane, sank, send, shad, shea, shed, shin, ship, side, sike, sine, sinh, sink, sipe, skep, skid, skin, skip, snap, sned, snip, spae, span, sped, spik, spin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-k-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: handspikes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6E 64 73 70 69 6B 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -. -.. ... .--. .. -.- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110011 01110000 01101001 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a n d s p i k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006E 0064 0073 0070 0069 006B 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426780708582757771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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