(pīk) noun
A long pole having a metal spearhead, used by foot soldiers in medieval warfare.
—v.t. piked, pik·ing To run through or kill with a pike. [<MF pique <piquer pierce <OF pic PIKE⁵]
PIKE HEADS

(pīk) noun
1. Α slender, long-snouted, voracious, spingy-finned food fish (family Esocidae), widely distributed in fresh waters of Europe, Asia, and America.
2. Some other fish resembling it, as the garpike. [Appar. short for pikefish <PIKE⁵ + FISH; with ref. to its pointed snout]

(pīk) noun
1. A turnpike road.
2. A tollbar.
—v.i. Slang piked, pik·ing To go in haste. [Short for TURNPIKE]

(pīk) noun
A mountain peak or pointed hill. [? <ON pik a pointed mountain. Akin to OE piic PIKE⁵.]

(pīk) noun
A spike or sharp point, as the central spike in a buckler. [OE piic, pic, prob. <OF,? <L picus a woodpecker]

(pīk), Zebulon Montgomery,
1779–1813, U.S. general and explorer.