Can you help me find the right word for the tool they are using in verse three of the song below? The singers are Danny and Joyce McLeod, who are from Newcastle, I believe. It sounds like they are saying "waife" or "wake" or maybe "wyke" and the tool in question is probably either a blade on a handle or a part of the harpoon or perhaps a hook/blade combination.

Thanks,
Blessings,
Barbara


TRY BOYS TRY
Jonty Davis c1993

(Try means to render)

Chorus:
Try, boys, try and set light to his funeral pyre
Try, boys, try, let bold smoke fill the air
Try, boys, try, let the pitch and the sulfur flare
Try, boys, try, we will roast him in hell!

1. The cry comes from the top mast
Oh, there she blows again
So launch your boats and pull like hell
You merry whaling men!

2 The harpoon lance flies forward and
That whale he's wounded sore
So grab the ropes and hold him fast
You poxy whaling whores

3 His razor flukes are flying
And his flurries almost done
So stick a waike(?) into his back
You filthy whaling scum

4. We lash him up alongside
His carcass for to try
We'll cut him up and boil him down
Before he smells so high

5. We'll render him to tallow
Extract your ambergris
Fine scented ladies' sweet perfume
Owes much to tasks like these