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/paɪk pərtʃ/ Listen

noun

Pike n.

(Mil.) 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 It is now superseded by the bayonet.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. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

A pick. (Prov. Eng.)

A pointed or peaked hill. (R.)

A large haycock. (Prov. Eng.)

A turnpike; a toll bar.

(Zool.) sing. & pl. 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Balaenoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; called also piked whale.

Sand pike (Zool.), the lizard fish.

Sea pike (Zool.), the garfish (a).

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Etymology of 'Pike perch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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