English Dictionary

pike

/paɪk/

verb

(transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike. / (transitive, intransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.

He used a stick to pike the firewood.

意味（1）

(transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.

Soon after the general marched from Kilcullen, the rebels plundered all the houſes of the proteſtants in it and its vicinity, and murdered ſuch of the inhabitants as could not make their eſcape. […] They piked out one eye of a Mrs. Burchell, aged ninety; they alſo aſſaſſinated ſome wounded ſoldiers who had been left in the town, and Mr. John Cheney at Donard.

意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.

In the early stages he can do this by bending at the elbows (no more than 90) as he pikes the legs and straightens the arms in co-ordination with the upward swing of the cast, so that the whole body is extended as he reaches handstand.

意味（3）

(intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.

I put the temporary squinch on the rum bug when I got there and piked along at a ten-cent table with the last two dollars I had.

意味（4）

(intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.

Don’t pike on me like you did last time!