How To Use Marlinespike In A Sentence

Everything from tobacco sacks and cigarette papers to a spare cinch and a rope, from a change of clothes to a picture of his family or his girl, from old letters and reading material to a marlinespike, was kept in it. This Calder Range
A piece of wood showed among the rubble on the desk, the blunt end of a marlinespike. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
She took two long steps and seized the marlinespike, yanking it off the desk in a shower of rubbish and clanging oddments. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
It had been Captain Vestrit's conceit to keep a marlinespike on the corner of his desk. The Mad Ship
That is to say, he hauled a nickel-plated marlinespike thing toward him, shoved another one away from him, took a twist on the steerin 'wheel, the gocart coughed like a horse with the heaves, started up some sort of buzz-planer underneath, and then we begun to move. The Depot Master

Brashen had once worked on a ship where the mate was a bit too free with his marlinespike. Ship Of Magic
He did so, and had it not been that a writ of Habeas Corpus was immediately sworn out, the Deptford tailor would most certainly have exchanged his needle for a marlinespike. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
Ronica nodded at Rache, but did not put down the marlinespike. The Mad Ship
She kept hold of the marlinespike, but her wrists quivered, and she lowered it. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
For every thumb was a marlinespike and every finger a fid Old Fid