Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PIKE

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Definitions of PIKE

1. A large haycock.
2. Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
3. A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
4. (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.
5. (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. [from 1920s]
6. (fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
7. (chiefly, Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
8. (obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.
9. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A hayfork.
10. (obsolete, often, euphemistic, ) A penis.
11. (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
12. (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
13. (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
14. (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
15. (chiefly, US) Clipping of turnpike.
16. (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
17. (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
18. (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
19. A Middle English surname from Middle English.
20. A number of places in USA:
21. (US, slang) A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

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Examples of Using PIKE in a Sentence

• Albert Pike (December 29, 1809April 2, 1891) was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865.
• According to an eighteenth-century biographical dictionary, when Abbot's mother was pregnant with him she had a dream in which she was told that if she ate a pike her child would be a son and rise to great prominence.
• Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912 – December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist.
• Shchukino District (Russian for "Pike" District), an area in North-Western Administrative Okrug, part of the federal city of Moscow.
• The American pickerel (Esox americanus) is a medium-sized species of North American freshwater predatory fish belonging to the pike family.
• The name "muskellunge" originates from the Ojibwe words maashkinoozhe meaning "great fish", mji-gnoozhe, maskinoše, or mashkinonge, meaning "bad pike", "big pike", or "ugly pike" respectively.
• Esocidae is a family of ray-finned fish in the order Salmoniformes, which contains pike, pickerel, and mudminnows.
• The novel draws on autobiographical details of Dick's friendship with the controversial Episcopal bishop James Pike, on whom the title character is loosely based.
• The road has also been referred to as the Cumberland Turnpike, the Cumberland–Brownsville Turnpike (or Road or Pike), the Cumberland Pike, the National Pike, and the National Turnpike.
• The term "short staff" compares this to the "long staff" based on the pike with a length in excess of.
• The river basin is home to a variety of large predatory fish such as northern snakehead, Amur pike, taimen, Amur catfish, predatory carp and yellowcheek, as well as several species of trout and anadromous salmonids.
• Barbour County was established on December 18, 1832, from former Muscogee homelands and a portion of Pike County.
• Bullock County was established by act of the state legislature dated December 5, 1866, with areas partitioned from Macon, Pike, Montgomery, and Barbour counties.
• As population increased in the region, areas of it were taken to organize the present counties of Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Houston, and Pike.
• Pike County comprised a large tract of country, so large that it was called the State of Pike, including a part of what are now Crenshaw, Montgomery, Macon, Bullock, and Barbour counties, and extended to the Chattahoochee River on the east.
• Younger pike have yellow stripes along a green body; later, the stripes divide into light spots and the body turns from green to olive green.
• A pike is a long thrusting spear formerly used in European warfare from the Late Middle Ages and most of the early modern period, and wielded by foot soldiers deployed in pike square formation, until it was largely replaced by bayonet-equipped muskets.
• Unlike many other dynamic languages, Pike is both statically and dynamically typed, and requires explicit type definitions.
• Using a net provided by Ran, Loki catches him as a pike and forces him to give up his gold and Andvaranaut.
• Throughout the show's entire two-year run, Dailey Pike was Roseanne's warmup guy and sidekick regular on the show.
• In 1696, governor Fletcher authorized purchases of Indian land near the New York border by a number of citizens of Ulster County; their descendants became the first European settlers of what became Pike County.
• The county borders Northampton County and the Lehigh Valley to its south, Pike and Wayne counties to its north, Carbon and Luzerne counties to its west, and the Delaware River and Warren County, New Jersey to its east.
• Albert Pike, representing the Confederate States of America, signed treaties with the Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek nations at the beginning of the Civil War.
• The first of these is Brookeville Pike (also known as the Washington-Brookeville Pike and later as the Union Turnpike, now Georgia Avenue) a north/south toll thoroughfare running from Washington, D.
• Pike County was organized on February 1, 1815, from portions of Scioto, Ross, and Adams Counties, and was named in honor of Zebulon Pike, the explorer and soldier who had recently been killed in the War of 1812.

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