PIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pike mean? 

• PIKE (noun)
  The noun PIKE has 5 senses:

1. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

2. highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh

3. a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)

4. medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet

5. any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere

  Familiarity information: PIKE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

expressway; freeway; motorway; pike; state highway; superhighway; throughway; thruway

Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):

highway; main road (a major road for any form of motor transport)

Meronyms (parts of "pike"):

carriageway (one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pike"):

autobahn (an expressway in a German-speaking country)

autostrada (an expressway in an Italian-speaking country)

toll road; turnpike (an expressway on which tolls are collected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):

freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pike"):

muskellunge (flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish)

pickerel (flesh of young or small pike)

Holonyms ("pike" is a part of...):

pike (any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sharp point (as on the end of a spear)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):

point (sharp end)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):

arm; weapon; weapon system (any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting)

Meronyms (parts of "pike"):

spear-point; spearhead; spearpoint (the head and sharpened point of a spear)

pikestaff (the staff of a pike)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pike"):

halberd (a pike fitted with an ax head)

partisan; partizan (a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries)

vouge (a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pike" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "pike"):

pike (highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pike"):

Esox lucius; northern pike (voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere)

Esox masquinongy; muskellunge (large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America)

pickerel (any of several North American species of small pike)

Holonyms ("pike" is a member of...):

Esox; genus Esox (type and only genus of the family Esocidae)

 Context examples 

Others, with slabs of bacon and joints of dried meat upon the ends of their pikes, held them up to the blaze or tore at them ravenously with their teeth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pike and Dub followed on his heels, with the rest of the team behind.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Well, if I speak back, pikes will be going in two shakes; if I don't, Silver will see there's something under that, and the game's up.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My nurse gave me a part of a straw, which I exercised as a pike, having learnt the art in my youth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Now for the rogue with the head upon his pike.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pike robbed him of half a fish one night, and gulped it down under the protection of Buck.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But the colonel ordered six of the ringleaders to be seized, and thought no punishment so proper as to deliver them bound into my hands; which some of his soldiers accordingly did, pushing them forward with the butt-ends of their pikes into my reach.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Pike, who had been trembling abjectly, took heart at this open mutiny, and sprang upon his overthrown leader.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off unperceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Pike, the malingerer, who, in his lifetime of deceit, had often successfully feigned a hurt leg, was now limping in earnest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)