Usually means: Long spear used in warfare.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pike: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pike, pike: Merriam-Webster
  3. pike, pike, pike, pike, pike: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pike, pike, pike, pike, pike, pike: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pike: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pike: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pike, pike: Wordnik
  8. pike: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pike, pike: Wiktionary
  10. pike: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pike: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pike: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pike, pike: Dictionary.com
  14. pike (1), pike (2), pike (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pike: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pike (Buffyverse character), Pike (cipher), Pike (disambiguation), Pike (fish), Pike (munition), Pike (programming language), Pike (surname), Pike (weapon), Pike, The Pike: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pike: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pike: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pike: Rhymezone
  20. Pike: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pike: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pike: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. pike: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pike: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Pike: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pike: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  2. Pike (disambiguation), pike: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Pike (disambiguation), Pike (fish), Pike (zoology), pike: Medical dictionary

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  3. pike: A Word A Day
  4. pike: Idioms
  5. United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations (No longer online)
  6. pike, pike: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pike, pike, pike, pike, pike, pike: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pike: Urban Dictionary

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  4. Pike: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.
noun:  A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
noun:  A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
noun:  Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
noun:  (historical) A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
noun:  (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
noun:  (obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.
noun:  (obsolete, British, dialectal) A hayfork.
noun:  (obsolete, often euphemistic) A penis.
verb:  (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
verb:  (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
verb:  (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
verb:  (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
noun:  (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
verb:  (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, British, thieves' cant) To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Sierra County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township.
noun:  (US, slang) A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
noun:  (chiefly US) Clipping 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; a turnstile.]

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