Pike

Quick meaning: Pike is a noun meaning A sharp, pointed staff or implement.

Meaning

A sharp, pointed staff or implement.

More Meanings

1. A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
2. Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
3. (fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
4. (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
5. (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
6. (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
7. (obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.

Example Sentences

Each had a ſmall ax in the ſurcingle of his ſaddle, and a pike about fourteen feet long, the weapon with which he charged; […]

An arme pike which a weake man maye use or handle very reddily with such force as a man will not thincke, and the same pike will also become a very good shotte at all tymes.

If you fish for pike with a live-bait, snap tackle, or spinning, it should always be with the hooks attached to gimp, in consequence of the several rows of sharp teeth with which the pike is armed, and which enable it to bite gut in two.

And now they begin to catch the pikes, and will ſhortly the trouts (pox on theſe miniſters), and I would fain know whether the floods were ever ſo high as to get over the holly bank or the river walk; if ſo, then all my pikes are gone; but I hope not.

Word Forms

• pikes
• piking
• piked

Synonyms for pike

Depending on context, synonyms include ged, throughway, freeway, motorway, thruway, expressway.

Related Words

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