(n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hill, 52, was sentenced to death for killing a fellow prisoner, Joseph Handspike, in 1990.
(2) In 1990 he was already serving a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend when he killed fellow inmate John Handspike in a Georgia prison, beating him to death with a nail-studded board.
(3) The incident was impulsive – he didn't intend to kill Mr Handspike," Kammer said.
(4) At the time he bludgeoned Handspike to death, he was being held in a shared prison dormitory and was coming under physical and sexual harassment from other inmates.
(5) Richard Handspike, nephew of Joseph Handspike, speaking for the family, said that the death penalty should not have been imposed.
Windlass
Definition:
(n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
(v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
(n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
(n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
(v. t. & i.) To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
Example Sentences:
(1) By coincidence, both injuries were caused when the patients' clothing was caught in the revolving cylinder of a windlass on a ship.