pike head

The pointed top of a spear, . (Spenser: F. Q., I. vii. 37.) pike-headed, a. Having a sharp-pointed head. Pike - headed alligator: Zool .: Alligator lucius , or mi is sip pens is . [MISSISSIPPI-ALLIGATOR.] pike-keeper, subst. The keeper of a turnpike. (Dickens: Pickwick, ch. xxii.) IMG:content-1068.png:[blocks in formation] pike (4), v. i. & t. To play or game in a niggardly or penurious manner; to wager small stakes. piked, adj. (English pik (e), s.; -ed.] Pointed, peaked; ending in a point; acuminated. "Piked points of knives, which they hauing gotten of the French men, broke the same, and put the points of them in their arrowes' heads." Hackluyt: Voyages, iii. 517. *pike-de-vant, s . [PICKEDEVANT.] pike-lět, pike-lin, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A lightke or muffin; a crumpet.