Definition of pike

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Pike (n. & v.) 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 It is now superseded by the bayonet..

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Pintail :: Pintail (n.) A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon..
Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..
Pikeman :: Pikeman (pl. ) of Pikema.
Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fix on a spike.
Gade :: Gade (n.) A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead..
Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..
Gar :: Gar (v.) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike..
Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..
Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..
Glasseye :: Glasseye (n.) A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.
Sea Pike :: Sea pike () The garfish.
Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Spike :: Spike (n.) An ear of corn or grain.
Skittle-dog :: Skittle-dog (n.) The piked dogfish.
Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The hooded merganser.
Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A pointed or peaked hill.
Pike :: Pike (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..
Wringbolt :: Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt..
Garfish :: Garfish (n.) A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike..
Luce :: Luce (n.) A pike when full grown.
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