Your halbardier should be armed in all points like your pike

Markham, Soldiers Accidence, p. 4. 7t. A measure of length, originally based on the ( IMG:content-0162.jpg:[blocks in formation] pikelł (pik), v .; pret. and pp. piked , ppr. piking . [ piken , pyken , prob. only or chiefly with a short vowel, piken , a var. of picken , pikken , mod. pick1 : the ref. to pikel , n ., being only secondary: see pike1 , pick1 , pitch1 .] I. trans. 1. To pick or pluck.-2. To pick or choose; select; cull. Diligently clodde it, pyke oute stones.