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• Pike

  ·noun & ·v A large haycock. II. Pike ·noun & ·v A turnpike; a toll bar. III. Pike ·noun & ·v A poi...

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• to pike

  To run away. Pike off; run away. ...

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• pike

  (See half-pike.) A long, slender, round staff, armed at the end with iron. (See boarding-pike and py...

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• Etter pike

  ·noun The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera). ...

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• Gar pike

  ·- ·Alt. of <<Garpike>>. ...

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• Half-pike

  ·noun A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a s...

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• Morris-pike

  ·noun A Moorish pike. ...

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• Pike-devant

  ·noun A pointed beard. ...

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• Sea pike

  ·- The <<Garfish>>. II. Sea pike ·- The <<Merluce>>. III. Sea pike ·- A large serranoid food fish ...

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• Pike, Albert

  (1809-1891) Poet, b. at Boston, Mass., was in his early days a teacher, and afterwards a successful...

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• sea-pike

  n. a fish of New South Wales, Lanioperca mordax, Gunth., of the family Sphyraenidae. The name belon...

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• boarding-pike

  A defensive lance against boarders. ...

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• frog-pike

  A female pike, so called from its period of spawning being late, contemporary with the frogs. ...

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• half-pike

  An iron spike fixed on a short ashen staff, used to repel the assault of boarders, and hence frequen...

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• morris-pike

  A formidable Moorish weapon, the precursor of the boarding-pike. ...

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• otter-pike

  The lesser weever, Trachinus draco; also called sea-stranger. ...

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• pike-turn

  See chevaux de frise. ...

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• trail a pike, to

  To hold the spear end in the right hand, and the butt trailed behind the bearer. ...

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