pike

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1. dân du mục, người lang thang

   A sharp, pointed staff or implement.

   Each had a ſmall ax in the ſurcingle of his ſaddle, and a pike about fourteen feet long, the weapon with which he charged; […]

2. A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).

3. Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.

4. A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.

   She sprang into the air and jack-knifed into a clumsy pike before following her hands into the water.

5. Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.

   northern-england

   Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England.

   I will thrust my ſelfe into the ſtocks, vpon the pikes of the Land.

   The pike of Teneriffe how high it is? 70 miles or 52, as Patritius holds: […]

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