Pike

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.

   “An arme pike which a weake man maye use or handle very reddily with such force as a man will not thincke, and the same pike will also become a very good shotte at all tymes.”

2. isim 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; […]”

3. isim A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
4. isim Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.

   “And now they begin to catch the pikes, and will ſhortly the trouts (pox on theſe miniſters), and I would fain know whether the floods were ever ſo high as to get over the holly bank or the river walk; if ſo, then all my pikes are gone; but I hope not.”

5. isim 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.”

6. isim A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
7. isim A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
8. isim Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.

   “Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England.”

9. isim A pick, a pickaxe.

   “The pike axe, a single blade axe with a point on the back side of the head, was designed for forcible entry.”

10. isim A hayfork.

    “Short rakes for to gather vp barlie to binde, / and greater to rake vp such leauings behinde: / A rake for to hale vp the fitchis that lie, / A pike for to pike them vp handsom to drie.”

11. isim A penis.

    “[F]or to ſerue brauely, is to come halting off, you know to come off the breach, with his pike bent brauely, and to ſurgerie brauely, to venture vpon the chargde chambers brauely.”

12. fiil To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.

    “They were armed with pikes, which were red with the blood of those they had just murdered. As Mr. Gurley was led toward them, they set up a shout: "O boys, here comes Gurley, the heretic. Pike him! pike him! pike the heretic dog!"”

13. fiil To assume a pike position.

    “In the early stages he can do this by bending at the elbows (no more than 90) as he pikes the legs and straightens the arms in co-ordination with the upward swing of the cast, so that the whole body is extended as he reaches handstand.”

14. fiil To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.

    “I put the temporary squinch on the rum bug when I got there and piked along at a ten-cent table with the last two dollars I had.”

15. fiil Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.

    “Don’t pike on me like you did last time!”

16. isim Clipping of turnpike.

    “They tried out every idea that came down the pike.”

17. isim A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
18. fiil To equip with a turnpike.

    “Now suppose we commence and pike one mile of road in every township in this county each year,[…]. The saving on what was piked the years before would be such that you would be able to pay into the treasury only the amount that you did the first year.”

19. fiil To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.

    “Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged. [footnote: Kill the fellow, down with him before he opens the door. Stab him, through and through; if he gets off we shall all be hanged.]”

20. özel isim A surname from Middle English.
21. özel isim A census-designated place in Sierra County, California.
22. özel isim An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike.
23. özel isim An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
24. özel isim A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York.
25. özel isim An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
26. özel isim An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection.
27. özel isim A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township.
28. isim A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.