Dictionary Entry
A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
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Poetry examples for “pike”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Liquid and cool in the shade of the reeds,
A pike dozed.
Lost among the shadows of stems
Read full poem →Noctitne sdf 5 tees ek cat ree ee OO)
Aner AUT if ores. OMG A. ell eo ko Pike eee enn Oy
JONATHAN HENDERSON BRooKs
Read full poem →Macomb, Marshall, Miller, Morse, Patterson, Perry,
Phillips, Pickering, Pike, Porter, Quincy, Randolph,
Reed, Scott, Story, Swift, Taney, Vanderbilt, Van
Read full poem →O’Brien, O’Connor, O’Hara, Olmsted, Ord, Palmer,
Pemberton, Pendleton, Pickett, Pike, Pleasanton,
Peck, Pope, Porter, Prentiss, Price, Pulitzer, Quay,
Read full poem →By him, as by chain'd shot, whole ranks do die;
He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry.
Read full poem →Are monsignores, and where the rushes shake
A lazy pike lies basking in the sun,
His eyes half shut,—he is some mitred old
Read full poem →John cain't tek de place o' Henry, Su an' Sally ain't alike;
Bass ain't nuthin' like a suckah, chub ain't nuthin' like a pike.
Read full poem →cunnynge, and trustie woorkeman, whyche shall cut hym
shorter, and pike hym and dresse h)rm fytter, make h)rm
comme rounde compace every where, and whippyng at the
Read full poem →freate the weake places nexte it. Freates be fyrst litle
pinchese, the whych when you perceave, pike the places
about the pinches, to make them somewhat weker, and as