What is "handspikes"

Usage examples of "handspikes".

That bravely and uninjured takes the jam which would have snapped all their oaken handspikes and iron crow-bars.

I say with your handspikes, and run one of ye for a prayer book and a pen-knife, and cut the big chains.

Thundering with the butts of three clubbed handspikes on the forecastle deck, Daggoo roused the sleepers with such judgment claps that they seemed to exhale from the scuttle, so instantaneously did they appear with their clothes in their hands.

They dragged the guns forward after each shot, levered the trails round with handspikes, and pushed the ammunition into the hot muzzles that steamed from the sponging out.

The gunners desperately slewed the guns round, the men heaving on the handspikes as yet more bullets came from the north.