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Piers Plowman (B), v. 482. (b) (1) A sharp-pointed weapon consisting of a long shaft or handle with an iron head. It has been in use from ancient times, but the word dates apparently from the fifteenth century. About that period, and for some time later, it was the arm of a large part of the infantry, and was from 15 to 20 feet long. It continued in use, although re a b Pikes. duced in length, throughout the seventeenth century, and was replaced by the bayonet as the latter was improved. It was retained in the British army until a very late date as a mere ensign of rank. (See half - pike and spontoon .) The pike has always been the arm of hastily levied and unequipped soldiers; you sands were used in the French revolution. Such pikes have usu ally a IMG:content-0159.jpg:[blocks in formation] called salmon - trout . (c) In Australia, the Sphyræna по væ -holland iæ and S. obtusata . (d) The sea-pike (a belonid). See also phrases below. - Bald pike, a ganoid fish, Amia calva. [U.S.] Bony pike. Same as garpike , 2.-Brazilian pike, a scomberesocid fish, of the genus Hemirham phus . Pennant . - Federation pike, a pickerel, Esox american us : so called in allusion to the bands with which its body is cro ed and rays being often thirteen in number.-Gla -eyed pike, the pike-perch, Stizoste dion americanum , or S. vitreum. Also called goggle -eyed and wall - eyed pike . Gray pike. Same as blue - pike. Great pike, the maskalonge, Esox nobilior . -Green pike. (a) The pike-perch, Stizostedion vitreum . (b) The common pickerel, Esox reticulatus . - Ground-pike, the sauger, Stizostedion can a dense . Humpbacked pike, Esox cypho . E. D. Cope. Mud-pike, the sauger. [Lake Ontario.]Sand-pike. (a) The sauger. (b) The lizard-fish, Synodus foætens .-Wall-eyed pike. Same as gla - eyed pike . Yellow pike, the pike-perch, Stizostedion vitreum . pike3 (pik), п. [Abbr. of turnpike , turnpike road.] A turnpike; a turnpike road. a, pike, 2 (6) (2); b, ferruleohinbeead to mere pike3 (pik), v . i. [Appar. pike3 , n.] Το ordinary infantry pike, forın, but long, sharp-pointed, and rapidly. [Slang.] century. go formidable. The pike of regular piket, v . t . An obsolete form of pick2 , pitch1 . warfare had sometimes a round, sometimes a flat or piket, v. i. [ME. piken : see peek2 .] To peep; spear-like head. In the Court there was a Soldier pourtrayed at length with a blacke pike in his hand. Coryat , Crudities, I. 223. (2) A weapon which replaced for a short time the simple pointed pike; it had an ax-blade on one side and a pointed beak or hook on the other. In this form it was IMG:content-0160.png:[blocks in formation] retained in the French army as a badge of rank as late as pikedł (pi'ked or pikt), a. [ piked , pyked ; the first empire. (ct) A pitchfork used by farmers. A rake for to hale up the fitches that lie, A pike for to pike them up, handsome to dry. Tu er , September's Husbandry. 3. A sharp-pointed hill or mountain summit; a peak. [North. Eng.] A gathering weight of shadows brown Falls on the valleys as the sun goes down; And Pikes , of darkne named and fear and storms, Uplift in quiet their illumined forms. Words worth, Descriptive Sketches. Ma es of broken crag rising at the very head of the valley into a fine pike , along whose jagged edges the rain clouds were trailing.