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- English Word Pike Definition A pointed or peaked hill.
- English Word Pike Definition A large haycock.
- English Word Pike Definition A turnpike; a toll bar.
- English Word Pike Definition 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.
- English Word Pike-devant Definition A pointed beard.
- English Word Piked Definition Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.
- English Word Pikelet Definition Alt. of Pikelin
- English Word Pikelin Definition A light, thin cake or muffin.
- English Word Pikeman Definition of Pikeman
- English Word Pikeman Definition A soldier armed with a pike.
- English Word Pikeman Definition A miner who works with a pick.
- English Word Pikeman Definition A keeper of a turnpike gate.
- English Word Pikestaff Definition The staff, or shaft, of a pike.
- English Word Pikestaff Definition A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.
- English Word Piketail Definition See Pintail, 1.
- English Word Pikrolite Definition See Picrolite.
- English Word Pilage Definition See Pelage.
- English Word Pilaster Definition An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.
- English Word Pilastered Definition Furnished with pilasters.
- English Word Pilau Definition See Pillau.
- English Word Pilch Definition A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.
- English Word Pilchard Definition A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.
- English Word Pilcher Definition A scabbard, as of a sword.
- English Word Pilcher Definition The pilchard.
- English Word Pilcrow Definition a paragraph mark, /.
- English Word Pildia Definition of Pilidium
- English Word Pile Definition A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
- English Word Pile Definition A covering of hair or fur.
- English Word Pile Definition The head of an arrow or spear.
- English Word Pile Definition A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.