Category:Pike

Pike, n. Etym: [f. pique; perhaps of celtic origin; cf. W. pig a Prick, a point, beak, arm. pik pick. But cf. also l. picus woodpecker (see pie magpie), and e. spike. Cf. Pick, n. & v., Peak, pique.]

1. (mil.)

Defn: a foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or Staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the Bayonet.

2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or Target. Beau. & fl.

3. A hayfork. [obs. or prov. Eng.] Tusser.

4. A pick. [prov. Eng.] Wright. Raymond.

5. A pointed or peaked hill. [r.]

6. A large haycock. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

7. A turnpike; a toll bar. Dickens.

8. (zoöl.) sing. & pl.

Defn: a large fresh-water fish (esox lucius), found in europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, Luce, and jack.

Note: blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow Pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See wall-eye. Gar pike. See under gar. -- pike perch (zoöl.), any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly lucioperca). See wall-eye, and sauger. -- pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing Floating logs. -- pike whale (zoöl.), a finback whale of the north atlantic (balænoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also Piked whale. -- sand pike (zoöl.), the lizard fish. -- sea pike (zoöl.), the garfish (a).