Pike

pīk, n. a sharp point: a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head like a spear, formerly used by foot-soldiers: a sharp-pointed hill or summit: a voracious fresh-water fish (so called from its pointed snout).— adj. Piked , ending in a point.— ns. Pike′-head , the head of a pike or spear; Pike′-keep′er , the keeper of a turnpike; Pike′let , a tea-cake; Pike′man , a man armed with a pike: a man in charge of a turnpike gate; Pike′-perch , a common percoid fish; Pike′staff , the staff or shaft of a pike: a staff with a pike at the end. [A.S. píc , piic , a pike; Dut. piek , Ger. pike , pieke ; or Celt., as Gael. pìc , a pike, W. pig , a point.]