pike in Kashmiri कॉशुर
pike in Sindhi سنڌي
pike in Telugu తెలుగు
pike in English
- pike⇄expr. come down the pike, (U.S. Informal.) to make an appearance; show up; come along.
Ex. The same Board ... has a tendency to reject--on preposterously formal, checklist grounds--some of the most interesting teachers who come down the pike (Harpe - pike⇄noun a spear with a long wooden handle, which foot soldiers used to carry before the invention of the bayonet; spear. Pikes had an iron or steel head.
Ex. He wanted pikes to set before his archers (Shakespeare). - pike⇄pike (1), noun, verb, piked,piking.
- pike⇄pike (2), noun.
a sharp point or spike, such as the head of an arrow or spear or the spike in the center of a buckler. - pike⇄pike (3), noun, pl.pikesor (collectively)pike.
1. a large, slender, freshwater fish of the Northern Hemisphere, having spiny fins and a long narrow, pointed head. The muskellunge and pickerel are pikes.
Ex. And pikes, the tyrants of the watery - pike⇄pike (4), noun.
1. turnpike.
2. any main highway, especially one on which toll is paid.
3. the toll paid at a turnpike gate.
4. a railroad or model railroad. - pike⇄pike (5), noun.
in Northern England:
1. a pointed summit.
2. a mountain or hill with a pointed summit (widely used in the names of mountains and hills, especially in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire). - pike⇄pike (6), intransitive verb, piked,piking.
(Informal.)
1. to depart.
2. to die. - pike⇄pike (7), intransitive verb, piked,piking.
to gamble or do anything in a small, cautious way; be a piker. - pike⇄pike (8), noun.
a diving position in which the diver bends his body forward from the hips and keeps his legs straight at the knees with his toes pointed. Usually the diver touches his toes or puts his hands on his legs or knees in performing the pik - pike⇄v.t. to pierce, wound, or kill with or as if with a pike.