Word.ws English Dictionary

pike-guard

pike-guard is the alternative form of pikeguard.

Meaning of pikeguard

Noun

pikeguard (plural pikeguards)

  1. A passegarde (neck guard).
    • [page 65:] The pikeguard has ceased, sollerets are the shape of the foot, and he wears a morion. The morion and cabasset were late sixteenth and seventeenth century […]
      [page 118:] The pauldrons, which are uneven in size, are surmounted by pikeguards; the left pauldron is the larger. These pieces...1900, Robert Coltman Clephan, The Defensive Armour and the Weapons and Engines of War of Mediæval Times: And of the "Renaissance"

Forms of pike-guard

pluralpike-guards

Questions about pike-guard

What is pike-guard the alternative form of?
Pike-guard is the alternative form of pikeguard.

Words near pike-guard in the dictionary

  1. pike characins
  2. Pike County
  3. pike pole
  4. pike poles
  5. pike-devant
  6. pike-guard
  7. pike-guards
  8. pike-perch
  9. pike-perches
  10. piked
  11. pikeguard

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pike-guard (page history and authors); pikeguard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pike-guard.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pike-guard. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.