English Dictionary

pike

/paɪk/

noun

(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.

The pike is a long, spear-like weapon used in medieval warfare.

意味（1）

(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.

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.

意味（2）

A sharp, pointed staff or implement.

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

意味（3）

A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).

On returning to the hayfield, Where can Mr. Thorn be? said Mrs. Merton: I thought he was in the field. / Magenta and Solferino looked at each other; the haymakers had made a pike on top of the hay in which they had buried him. / Mamma, said Solferino, I believe he's under that pike! / […] He went to sleep, said Magenta, and we covered him over with hay, and they have made a pike on top of him! / You naughty, tiresome children! said Mrs. Merton: what have you done?

意味（4）

Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.

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.

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(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.

She sprang into the air and jack-knifed into a clumsy pike before following her hands into the water.

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(fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.

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(historical) A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.

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(chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.

Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England.

意味（9）

(obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.

The pike axe, a single blade axe with a point on the back side of the head, was designed for forcible entry.

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(obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A hayfork.

Short rakes for to gather vp barlie to binde, / and greater to rake vp such leauings behinde: / A rake for to hale vp the fitchis that lie, / A pike for to pike them vp handsom to drie.

意味（11）

(obsolete, often euphemistic) A penis.

[F]or to ſerue brauely, is to come halting off, you know to come off the breach, with his pike bent brauely, and to ſurgerie brauely, to venture vpon the chargde chambers brauely.

[F]or to ſerue brauely, is to come halting off, you know to come off the breach, with his pike bent brauely, and to ſurgerie brauely, to venture vpon the chargde chambers brauely. Falstaff asserts that he is potent using military imagery, by suggesting that after a man has engaged in sexual intercourse and ejaculated (served bravely), his penis (pike) will become flaccid (come halting off, bent bravely).