pike

Speech parts

1. pike - Noun

2. pike - Verb

4. Pike - Proper noun

Meaning

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 It is now superseded by the bayonet.

A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.

A hayfork.

A pick.

A pointed or peaked hill.

A large haycock.

A turnpike; a toll bar.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lance expressway spear motorway freeway thruway northern pike superhighway throughway mount sierra avenue speer alp barracuda
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Antonyms

meadow SAG remain pickpocket pitch slope
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Hypernyms

highway point fish arm weapon percoid

Hyponyms

autobahn partizan turnpike pickerel partisan halberd

Phrases with the word

Amur pike gar pike slimy pike slimy sea pike golden pike pike on

Anagrams

kipe kepi

Examples

That is one trouble about trading on a large scale. You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along. Edwin Lefèvre

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow. R. H. Tawney

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining. Robert Jordan

The pike grows big on small fry. Danish Proverb

A head stuck on a pike no longer conspires. Norse Proverb

Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science. Russian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

pikake pikal Pikangikum pike characin Pike County pike fly