"hand-spike" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1851, John S. Springer, “Part 3, Chapter 2”, in Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-Life Among the Loggers, and Wild-Wood Adventure. With Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the Various Rivers of Maine and New Brunswick., page 158",
          "text": "This person used a single hand-spike, holding up the upper end and sallying back. When the log rolled back it caused the hand-spike to spring forward, and, before he had time to relinquish his grasp, it flung him head-long forward, like an arrow from the hunter's bow, down the embankment into the water; when recovered, he was dead.",
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          "ref": "1917, American Expeditionary Forces, chapter 2, in Drill Regulations for (155 MM. Howitzer) (Model 1915 S.), page 37",
          "text": "74. To unfold the hand-spike.\nGrasp the hand-spike pivot handle with the left hand and disengage the spring knob from its seat and rotate the handle. Then grasp the hand-spike with the right hand and unfold it engaging the hook. Then rotate the pivot handle to its initial position, engaging the catch in its recess.",
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  "word": "hand-spike"
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          "ref": "1851, John S. Springer, “Part 3, Chapter 2”, in Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-Life Among the Loggers, and Wild-Wood Adventure. With Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the Various Rivers of Maine and New Brunswick., page 158",
          "text": "This person used a single hand-spike, holding up the upper end and sallying back. When the log rolled back it caused the hand-spike to spring forward, and, before he had time to relinquish his grasp, it flung him head-long forward, like an arrow from the hunter's bow, down the embankment into the water; when recovered, he was dead.",
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          "ref": "1917, American Expeditionary Forces, chapter 2, in Drill Regulations for (155 MM. Howitzer) (Model 1915 S.), page 37",
          "text": "74. To unfold the hand-spike.\nGrasp the hand-spike pivot handle with the left hand and disengage the spring knob from its seat and rotate the handle. Then grasp the hand-spike with the right hand and unfold it engaging the hook. Then rotate the pivot handle to its initial position, engaging the catch in its recess.",
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