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单词 handspeek
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handspeekn.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)spiːk/, U.S. /ˈhændˌspik/
Forms:

α. 1600s handspeeke, 1600s handspiek, 1600s 1800s– handspeak, 1600s– handspeek, 1700s handspik, 1800s hanspeak.

β. 1600s handspeck, 1800s handspec.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Dutch. Or (ii) a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymons: Dutch handspeek; Middle Low German hantspēke.
Etymology: < either (i) Dutch handspeek (although this is first attested slightly later: 1648 or earlier as †handtspeecke ; compare quot. 1672; < hand hand n. + speek spoke n.), or (ii) Middle Low German hantspēke ( < hant hand n. + spēke spoke n.). Compare German Handspeiche (late 18th cent.). Compare also French anspect crowbar, lever (1687; < Dutch handspeek ). Compare earlier handspike n., handspoke n., and also earlier speke n.2
Chiefly Nautical and Gunnery. Now U.S. regional (chiefly north-eastern) and rare.
= handspike n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun]
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speke1366
crowa1400
gavelock1497
prisea1500
handspoke1513
porter1538
sway1545
handspike1559
heaver1598
coleweigh1600
handspeek1644
forcer1649
ringer1650
ripping-chisel1659
pinch1685
crow-spike1692
Betty1700
wringer1703
crowbar1748
spike1771
pry1803
jemmy1811
crow-iron1817
dog1825
pinchbar1837
jimmy1848
stick1848
pry bar1872
peiser1873
nail bar1929
cane1930
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 52 They use a roape to set taught the shrowdes, with wale-knots, one end made fast to the shrowdes, to the other, the Lanniers are brought, and so with a hand-speeke turning it, they set taught the Halliards.
1672 D. Manly Hexham's Woorden-boeck (new ed.) Handt-speecke, Bar, or Hand-Spiek.
1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 119 Nautical Staticks, and Mechanicks, relating to Pullies and Crows, Handspecks.
1703 W. Godsoe Deposition 31 Mar. in Province & Court Rec. Maine (1958) IV. 287 I had Like to have had my Brains Beaten out not Long Before By sd Caine and his wife the on with an handspik and the other with an axe If I had not Bin Rescued By Corporall Crockett and Corporall Haley; and Receved a Great Blow on my head with a handspeek that..stund me.
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Espéque, a handspeek, being a wooden Leaver, us'd instead of an iron Crow, to traverse the Ordnance, or to the Windlass to heave up the Anchor at Sea.
1802 I. Moseley Narr. Captivity John Fillmore & his Escape from Pirates 15 With this resolution, and as much fortitude as I could muster, I went on board to Phillips, and stood by a hanspeak that lay upon the deck.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 123 Handspec.
1888 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 589 Here in New England the word ‘handspike’ used to be called handspeek.
1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 176 Handspeak, a wooden lever; a handspike; used for moving heavy things.
1917 Dial. Notes 4 393 [North-eastern Ohio] Handspeek, handspike. Not the prevailing form. Also N.Y.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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