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Pike   /paɪk/   Listen
noun
Pike  n.  
1.
(Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
2.
A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.
3.
A hayfork. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
4.
A pick. (Prov. Eng.)
5.
A pointed or peaked hill. (R.)
6.
A large haycock. (Prov. Eng.)
7.
A turnpike; a toll bar.
8.
(Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack. Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
Gar pike. See under Gar.
Pike perch (Zool.), any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.
Pike whale (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Balaenoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; called also piked whale.
Sand pike (Zool.), the lizard fish.
Sea pike (Zool.), the garfish (a).





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"Pike" Quotes from Famous Books



... treasures—his scraps of looted finery, the weapons taken from fallen knights, the garrison's surplus of arms. When he had locked the door and with Foresto's slow help braced some pike-shafts against it, he tried to make ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... prisidint, Hugh O'Neill Darsey vice-prisidint, Robert Immitt Clancy sicrety, an' Wolfe Tone Malone three-asurer. O'Brien'll be a good wan to have. He was in the Fenian r-raid, an' his father carrid a pike in forty-eight. An' he's in th' Clan. Besides, he has a sthrong pull with th' Ancient Ordher iv ...
— Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War • Finley Peter Dunne
... direction, thinking no harm, I followed. And upon a clear place not far from Willis's, as I advance out of the wood, I come on Captain Hal on horseback, with three- or four-and-thirty countrymen round about him, armed with every sort of weapon, pike, scythe, fowling-piece, and musket; and the Captain, with two or three likely young fellows as officers under him, putting the men through their exercise. As I rode up a queer expression comes over Hal's face. "Present arms!" says he (and the army tries ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... defence, and been ready to have received them with the highest acts of defiance, then had you showed yourselves men to my liking; whereas, by what you have done, you have made me half-afraid; I say half-afraid, that when they and we shall come to push a pike, I shall find you want courage to stand it out any longer. Wherefore have I commanded a watch, and that you should double your guards at the gates? Wherefore have I endeavoured to make you as hard ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... few private pupils in the village. One of her scholars of that summer recently spoke of her loving interest in her pupils and her care for their welfare. The following year she went to live with some cousins in Pike and ...
— Clara A. Swain, M.D. • Mrs. Robert Hoskins


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