Usually means: Long pole, medieval weapon staff.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word pikestaff:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. pikestaff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pikestaff: Merriam-Webster
  3. pikestaff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pikestaff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pikestaff: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pikestaff: Vocabulary.com
  7. pikestaff: Wordnik
  8. pikestaff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pikestaff: Wiktionary
  10. pikestaff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pikestaff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pikestaff: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pikestaff: Dictionary.com
  14. Pikestaff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pikestaff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pikestaff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pikestaff: Rhymezone
  18. Pikestaff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pikestaff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Pikestaff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. pikestaff: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pikestaff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pikestaff: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pikestaff: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pikestaff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pikestaff: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pikestaff)

▸ noun:  The wooden shaft of a pike.
▸ noun:  A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.

Similar:
pikeshaft, pikehead, pike, pick, palstaff, halfpike, poleaxe, pale, half-pike, pile, more...

Opposite:
blunt, dull, rounded

Types:
flagpole, maypole, signpost, telegraph pole, streetlight, lighthouse, more...

Phrases:
plain as a pikestaff, more...

Adjectives:
long, proverbial, great, balanced, eminent

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Similar:
pikeshaft, pikehead, pike, pick, palstaff, halfpike, poleaxe, pale, half-pike, pile, more...

Opposite:
blunt, dull, rounded

Types:
flagpole, maypole, signpost, telegraph pole, streetlight, lighthouse, more...

Phrases:
plain as a pikestaff, more...

Adjectives:
long, proverbial, great, balanced, eminent



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