Man after fish with handle of weapon (9)
I believe the answer is:
pikestaff
'handle of weapon' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'man after fish with' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'staff' (both can mean to work at a particular post).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'fish with' becomes 'pike' (pike is a kind of fish. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'staff' put after 'pike' is 'PIKESTAFF'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pikestaff that I've seen before include "Shaft, proverbially plain" , "Walking stick" , "Weapon on a pole" , "As plain as this is obvious" , "it's plain, one says" .)