Word Meanings - HANDSPIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.

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• ANCHOR
  1. To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship anchored in the stream. 2. To stop; to fix or rest. My invention . . . anchors on Isabel. Shak.
• HEAVE
  1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. And the huge columns heave into the sky. Pope. Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. Gray. The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. E. Everett. 2. To rise and fall with alternate
• MODIFICATION
  The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.
• ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
  One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.
• LEVERAGE
  The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple , the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular
• ANCHOR LIGHT
  The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern
• ANCHORAGE
  1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. 2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. 3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. 4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as,
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• ANCHORESS
  A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.
• HEAVEN
  hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gaham to put on, clothe one's
• HEAVENLY
  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
• MODIFICATIVE
  That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
• ANCHORLESS
  Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
• HEAVE OFFERING
  An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering. Ex. xxix.
• MODIFIABILITY
  Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
• GENERALLY
  1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
• LEVEROCK
  A lark.
• HEAVER
  A bar used as a lever. Totten. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.
• LEVERWOOD
  The American hop hornbeam , a small tree with very tough wood.
• HEAVINESS
  The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
• SHEAVED
  Made of straw. Shak.
• THEAVE
  A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old. Halliwell.
• CANTILEVER
  See CANTALEVER
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• UPHEAVAL
  The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust. Lubbock.
• DISANCHOR
  To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. Heywood.
• REMODIFICATION
  The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.
• OVARIOUS
  Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. Thomson.