2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. Beau. & Fl.
3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser.
4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Raymond.
5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
7. A turnpike; a toll bar. Dickens.
8. (Zoöl.) sing. & pl.
Defn: 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.
Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow
pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
Gar pike. See under Gar.
— Pike perch (Zoöl.), any fresh-water fish of the genus
Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
— Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing
floating logs.
— Pike whale (Zoöl.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic
(Balænoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; — called also
piked whale.
— Sand pike (Zoöl.), the lizard fish.
— Sea pike (Zoöl.), the garfish (a).
PIKED
Piked, a.