Definition of pike

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Pike (sing. & pl.) 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..

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Lavender :: Lavender (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts..
Pudu :: Pudu (n.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long..
Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A large haycock.
Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India..
Turnpike :: Turnpike (v. t.) To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road..
Tamarisk :: Tamarisk (n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna..
Jointweed :: "Jointweed (n.) A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers..
Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate..
Apiked :: Apiked (a.) Trimmed.
Hornpike :: Hornpike (n.) The garfish.
Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A hayfork.
Stabbingly :: Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.
Flail :: Flail (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded..
Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb..
Twilly :: Twilly (n.) A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy..
Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A pointed or peaked hill.
Dory :: Dory (n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
Spur :: Spur (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber..
Unspike :: Unspike (v. t.) To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon..
Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi..
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