Pike

plk, n. a weapon with a shaft and spear- head, formerly used by foot-soldiers a voracious freshwater fish so called from its pointed snout). [Cell as Gael, pn a pike, W. pig, a point cf. L. s pua, a spike. Beak, Peak, Pick, Picket are all from the same root, of which the fundamental idea is something ‘pointed,’ ‘sharp.’] Piked, pikt, adj, ending a point.