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pike
Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
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All Definitions for Pike

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1Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
2A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
3To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
4A 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.
5A 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.
6A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
7Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
8Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
9A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background
10A pikey.
11To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
12A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
13A hayfork.
14A pick, a pickaxe.
15A penis.
16To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
17To equip with a turnpike.
18A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
19To assume a pike position.
20A surname from Middle English.
21A number of places in the United States:
22A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
23A census-designated place in Sierra County, California.
24An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike.
25An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
26A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York.
27An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
28An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection.
29A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township.
30Clipping 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.]

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