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Term: Hand-pike (logging)

Definition: A piked lever, usually from 6 to 8 feet long, for handling logs piled in the water. A short pike-pole. View more information about logging elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org

View pictures relating to logging at Wisconsin Historical Images.

[Source: View more information about logging elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org ]

64 records found

habitant (Fr.)
hack (railroads)
hackle (farming)
half-timber (architecture)
Hamilton's Diggings
Hand holt (logging)
Hand-pike (logging)
Handy-rod (logging)
Hang-up (logging)
hanging knees (maritime)
hank (maritime)
Hard (money)
Hard-wood (logging)
hardtack (Civil War)
Hardtack-outfit (logging)
Harvey Zouaves (Civil War)
hatch (maritime)
Haudenosaunee
haulm (farming)
Haversack (Civil War)
hawsepipes (maritime)
hawser (maritime)
head-bars
headland (farming)
Hearthstone
heathery (farming)
heel (maritime)
helm (maritime)
hemp
High Victorian (architecture)
Highland Guards (Civil War)
Hillside Home School
hip roof (architecture)
hivernant (Fr.)
Hmong
Ho-Chunk Treaty of 1837
hock (farming)
hodag
Hodgson Guards (Civil War)
hogger (railroads)
hoist (maritime)
hold (maritime)
holm (farming)
Holocaust Survivors in Wisconsin
Holy Hill
home front
Homestead Act (1862)
Hoot-nanny (logging)
Hopewell (archaeology)
hopper (farming)
Horicon Guards (Civil War)
horn timber (maritime)
hornblende (mining)
horsepower (maritime)
Hortonville Teachers' Strike
hot dish (food)
Hot-pond (logging)
hotels in Wisconsin
howitzer (Civil War)
Hudson Bay Company
Hudson County Guards (Civil War)
hull (maritime)
Hundred Associates, Company of.
Hundred Day Men
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