pike

4 definitions found

pike - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig
     a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus
     woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. &
     v., Peak, Pique.]
     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        now superseded by the bayonet.
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     2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a
        shield or target. --Beau. & Fl.
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     3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
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     4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond.
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     5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
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     6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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     7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens.
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     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.
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     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.
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     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
        (Bal[ae]noptera 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 - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pike
      n 1: a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic [syn:
           expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway
           , superhighway, throughway, thruway]
      2: highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
      3: a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
      4: medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long
         pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
      5: any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food
         fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern
         hemisphere

pike - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Pike, NH
    Zip code(s): 03780
  Pike, NY (village, FIPS 57815)
    Location: 42.55587 N, 78.15422 W
    Population (1990): 384 (142 housing units)
    Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

pike - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "pike":
     Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway,
     arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue,
     belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real,
     carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circumferential, close,
     corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, crest, cul-de-sac,
     dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, expressway,
     freeway, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways,
     hilltop, interstate highway, knoll, lane, local road, lofty peak,
     main drag, main road, mews, motorway, mountaintop, parkway, pave,
     paved road, peak, pic, pico, pinnacle, place, plank road, point,
     precipice, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road,
     road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road,
     secondary road, speedway, spur, state highway, street, summit,
     superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway,
     toll road, tor, township road, turnpike, wynd