Sentence:  Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.nb.... Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle <WSD>served</WSD> as a shaft. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To usefully take the place (as), (instead) "of" something else. (from 14thc.)