PIKED

Adjective

piked (comparative more piked, superlative most piked)

Furnished with a pike; ending in a point

Synonyms: peaked, pointed

Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips

Verb

piked

simple past tense and past participle of pike

Anagrams

• kiped, pekid

Source: Wiktionary


Piked, a.

Definition: Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed. "With their piked targets bearing them down." Milton.

PIKE

Pike, n. Etym: [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. & v., Peak, Pique.]

1. (Mil.)

Definition: A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.

2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. Beau. & Fl.

3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser.

4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Raymond.

5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]

6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

7. A turnpike; a toll bar. Dickens.

8. (Zoöl.) sing. & pl.

Definition: 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



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