Pike, n.
n. [Fr. pique, Sp. & Pg. pica, It. picca, H. Ger. pieke, L. Ger. & D. piek; Dan. & Sw. pik. Cf. PICK and PEAK.]
Sense 1. (Mil.) A weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a flat-pointed steel head; a spear; —now superseded by the bayonet.
Sense 2. A pointed spear head or spike in the center of a buckler, “And on his breast a buckler with a pike in’t.” Beau. & Fl.
Sense 3. A fork used in husbandry; a pitchfork. [Obs.]
Sense 4. A pointed or spear-like peak, hill, or mountain summit. [Rare.]
On that tall pike (It is the loneliest place of all these hills) There were two springs. Wordsworth.
Sense 5. (Turning.) One of the points or centers upon which the work turns in a lathe. [Obs.] Moxon.
Sense 6. (Ichth.) A fish of the genus Esox, so named from its length and shape or from the form of its snout. It is a fresh-water fish, living in deep water.
Sense 7. A turnpike road.
