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Hand spike

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swinglenoun(transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
heelnoun(anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
pickverbA tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
pointnounA small dot or mark.
toenounEach of the five digits on the end of the human foot.
pinnounA needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
spindlenoun(spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
gunnounA device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
jointnoun(anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
marlinespikenounAlternative spelling of marlinspike. [A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.]
timenoun(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
halberdnounA two-handed pole weapon, consisting of a long pole with an axe-like blade mounted on it (at a right angle like an axe, not on the tip like a spear), and (opposite the blade) typically a spike or hook.
cobnounA corncob.
cramponnounAn attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.
earnoun(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
pikenounAny carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
pitonnoun(climbing) A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).
pricketnounA spike for holding a single candle.
risenoun(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
setverb(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.

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