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pike

noun

a highway: now chiefly in the informal phrase , to happen or appear

noun

a weapon, formerly used by foot soldiers, consisting of a metal spearhead on a long wooden shaft

transitive verb piked, piking

to pierce or kill with or as with a pike

noun pl. pike or pikes

  1. any of a family (Esocidae, order Salmoniformes) of slender, voracious, freshwater bony fishes with a narrow, pointed head and conspicuous, sharp teeth; esp., a species (Esox lucius) of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere
  2. any of various fishes resembling the true pikes, as the walleye

noun

a spike; point, as the pointed tip of a spear

noun

  1. a peaked summit
  2. a mountain or hill with a peaked summit

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery 1779-1813; U.S. general & explorer

See pike in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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