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• He has got his badge, and piked.From the entry badge
• The moment they had passed, the pikes clashed together horizontally to bar the gateway, and all but pinned an abdominal citizen that sought to wedge in along with them.From the entry abdominal
• “For me, it's a harbinger of larger cultural changes coming down the pike.”2014 May 26, Amy Verner, “From Humble Sneaker to Luxury Icon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry come down the pike
• He is staggering as the other billmen lash their pikes at him.2014, Toby Clements, Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims: (Book 1). From the entry billman
• Wayback, prime suspects in the knife-back night Shimmied the tower out on butch-house pike.2011, I.B. Wingfield, Sunday in the Body of the Garden of Tyme, →ISBN, page 277. From the entry wayback
• Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike.1949 November 14, “Art: Many Ways”, in Time, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016. From the entry come down the pike
• Pike got drunk and was very “wranglesome.”2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving. From the entry wranglesome
• Despite having pretty mean teeth, it lacks the laughing gear of the pike and thus smaller baits tend to be used.2012, Peter Kaminsky, Fishing For Dummies, UK: John Wiley & Sons, page 63. From the entry laughing gear
• The hoplites were pezetæri, the sarissa-armed, and hypaspists, a more select body, aimed with one-handed pike, sword and shield.2012, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Alexander: A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of…. From the entry one-handed
• Pike Place is Starbucks' attempt to address complaints that its regular cup of joe is bitter, overroasted and "burnt."2008 April 9, James Poniewozik, “Starbucks' New Brew: A First Taste”, in Time. From the entry cup of joe
• Pikes) had not yet set in, the traditional tyrannophobia (Thomas Hobbes) had been partially set out of joint.2007, Hans Maier, Totalitarianism and Political Religions. From the entry tyrannophilia
• No beefeaters needed pikes to hold the unruly back.1981 August 3, Marie Brenner, “The Wedding of the Century”, in New York Magazine, page 30. From the entry beefeater
• Continue without pause into a neckspring and, from the landing face-roll to hand-stand - pike again - and neckspring to stand.1965, Walter G. Dunn, Gymnastics for Schools: Vaulting & Agilities, page 134. From the entry neckspring
• Pike, of the Kent County sheriff’s office, Grand Rapids, Mich.1954 March 27, Bill Sachs, “Hocus-Pocus”, in The Billboard, page 42, column 1. From the entry hocus-pocuser
• Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24. From the entry bab
• Now the soldier carries but one spear, the shepherd one crook, the pedestrian one staff, the farmer one pike.[1925], Arthur Watkins, “Ley-men”, in The Old Straight Track; Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones, London: Methuen, →OCLC…. From the entry dodman
• Pike, for practically all of his sixty-nine years, has stood his watch-and-watch, with many a spill-over of watches into watches.1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV. From the entry spillover
• Attacked in front and rear, the Ormondians were piked and shot, and many were left mangled along the pass.1914, John O'Hanlon, History of the Queen's County, page 475. From the entry Ormondian
• We would get fresh fish every Friday, carp and pike, which my mother would grind to make the gefilte fish for shabbas.2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. From the entry trimethylamine
• He was a stuggy little man, with very small eyes set rather slanting in his square face, and a jaw like a pike.1986, Philip Mason, Call the Next Witness, page 50. From the entry stuggy
• Towards the end of the nineteenth century, boys who had pretended soldiers down through the centuries, now changed their pikes and swords for toy pistols.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 193. From the entry change
• This piking is used by the experienced rebound tumbler as a means of adjustment to his landing and begins before the final twist is completed.1960, Frank Ladue, Jim Norman, “Back Somersault with the Full Twist”, in Two Seconds of Freedom, 5th edition, Cedar Rapids, Ia.: Nissen…. From the entry rebound tumbler
• Trout glided into the shadows, feeding upon grey moths, while in the jackhole beneath the red clay hollows big pike stirred lazily.1911, The Nation - Volume 9, page 906. From the entry jackhole
• When the crowds burst again into the assembly hall, they bore with them on a pike the head of a conventionnel, Féraud, who had tried to bar their path.2004, David Andress, The French Revolution and the People, London, page 236. From the entry conventionnel
• The Leech Lake lip-lock may sound more difficult, but it's really quite easy to perform and works well on a pike that persists in rolling away from you.1993, Barry Reynolds, John Berryman, Pike on the Fly, page 129. From the entry lip-lock
• 'And he took one handes pike,' Titus continues,' and this exate an other, to wind about the windles (windlass), to bring the cable in and way the anker.'1979, Evelyn Berckman, Victims of piracy: the Admiralty Court, 1575-1678, page 78. From the entry windle

Meaning of pike

1. noun 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.
2. noun A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
3. noun A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).

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How do you use pike in a sentence?

Pike is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England.”

What is a short sentence with pike?

“He has got his badge, and piked.”

What does pike mean?

Pike means 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.