pike

Definitions

1. 1.A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. Beau. & Fl.
2. 2.A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser.
3. 3.A pick. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Raymond.
4. 4.A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
5. 5.A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
6. 6.A turnpike; a toll bar. Dickens.
7. 7.(Zoöl.) 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 (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).

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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