▸ noun: (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
▸ noun: A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
▸ noun: A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
▸ noun: Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
▸ noun: (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
▸ noun: (fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
▸ noun: (historical) A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
▸ noun: (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.
▸ noun: (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A hayfork.
▸ noun: (obsolete, often euphemistic) A penis.
▸ verb: (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
▸ verb: (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
▸ verb: (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
▸ noun: (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
▸ noun: A surname from Middle English.
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun: A census-designated place in Sierra County, California.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
▸ noun: A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection.
▸ noun: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township.
▸ noun: (US, slang) A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
▸ noun: (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike. [A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.]
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