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181 words match “PIKE”

PIKE n. 8 definitions
A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. Beau. & Fl.
PIKE-DEVANT n.
A pointed beard. [Obs.]
PIKED a.
Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed. "With their piked targets bearing them down." Milton.
PIKELET; PIKELIN n.
A light, thin cake or muffin. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
PIKEMAN n. 3 definitions
A soldier armed with a pike. Knolles.
PIKESTAFF n. 2 definitions
The staff, or shaft, of a pike.
PIKETAIL n.
See Pintail, 1.
APIKED a.
Trimmed. [Obs.] Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer.
ETTER PIKE n.
The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera).
FINPIKE n.
The bichir. See Crossopterygii.
GAR PIKE; GARPIKE n.
See under Gar.
HALF-PIKE n.
A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. Tatler.
HANDSPIKE n.
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
HORNPIKE n.
The garfish. [Prov. Eng.]
MORRIS-PIKE n.
A Moorish pike. [Obs.]
SEA PIKE n. 3 definitions
The garfish.
SPIKE n. 9 definitions
ing resembling such a nail in shape. He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison.
SPIKEBILL n. 2 definitions
The hooded merganser.
SPIKED a.
Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman.
SPIKEFISH n.
See Sailfish (a)
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