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1. Pike
   A family of fish that includes the pike, pickerel, and the muskellunge. These freshwater fish have long bodies, pointed heads, vicious teeth, and provide a lean, firm, bony flesh. Used in French 'quenelles' and the Jewish 'gefilte fish.'
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2. pike
   [n] - highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh 2. [n] - a sharp point (as on the end of a spear) 3. [n] - medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff 4. [n] - any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes wide...
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3. Pike
   Pike noun [ French pique ; perhaps of Celtic origin; confer W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But confer also Latin picus woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and English spike . Confer Pick ,
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4. pike
   1. A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. ... 2. A pointed head or spike; especially, one in the center of a shield or target. ... 3. A hayfork. ... 4. A pick. ... 5. A pointed or peaked hill. ... 6. A larg...
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5. pike
   noun any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
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6. pike
   noun medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
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7. pike
   noun highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
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8. Pike
   • (n. & v.) A pointed or peaked hill. • (n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. • (n. & v.) A foot soldier`s weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. • (n. & v.) A...
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9. Pike
   county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered by New York state and New Jersey to the northeast and southeast, respectively (the Delaware River ...
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10. pike
    any of several voracious freshwater fishes, family Esocidae, caught both commercially and for sport. They are recognized by the elongate body, small ... [1 related articles]
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11. pike
    medieval infantry weapon, a long spear with a heavy wooden shaft 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 metres) long, tipped by a small leaf-shaped steel point. The ... [5 related articles]
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12. Pike
    USS Pike was an American Pike Class submarine of 1310 tons displacement launched in 1935. USS Pike was powered by Winton diesel engines providing a top speed of 20 knots surfaced and 10 knots submerged. She was armed with one 3-inch gun and six 21 inch torpedo tubes. She carried a complement of 50.
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13. pike
    
    • a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
    • highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
    • a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
    • any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
    
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14. pike
    pike, in U.S. history: see turnpike.
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15. pike
    pike, weapon: see spear.
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16. pike
    pike, common name for the family Esocidae, freshwater game and food fishes of Europe, Asia, and North America. The pike, the muskellunge, and the pickerel form a small but well-known group of long, thin fishes with spineless dorsal fins, large anal fins, and long, narrow jaws with formidable teeth. ...
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17. Pike
    The pike (Esox lucius) is a voracious fresh water fish. The body is narrow and elongated, reaching a length of 120 centimetres. The head is long, broad and depressed. The pike is devoid of scales and barbells, and has the lower jaw extending beyond the upper. The rest of the body is covered by cycloid scales, and terminates in a forked tail-fin.
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18. Pike
    The pike was an infantry thrusting weapon with a generally leaf-shaped blade fastened to a long heavy staff.
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19. pike
    Any of a family Esocidae in the order Salmoniformes, of slender, freshwater bony fishes with narrow pointed heads and sharp, pointed teeth. The northern pike Esox lucius, of North America and Eurasia, may reach a length of 2.2 m/7 ft and a weight of 9 kg/20 lb. Other kinds of pike include muskellunges, up to 2.2 m/7 f...
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20. Pike
    Body position where legs are straight, together and the body is bent at the hips. For competition, minimum angle is 135
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21. Pike
    (weapon) A `pike` is a pole weapon, a very long thrusting spear used extensively by infantry both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a counter-measure against cavalry assaults. Unlike many similar weapons, the pike is not intended to be thrown. Pikes were used regularly in European war...
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22. Pike
    (programming language) `Pike` is an interpreted, general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform, dynamic programming language, with a syntax similar to that of C. Unlike many other dynamic languages, Pike is both statically and dynamically typed, and requires explicit type definitions. It featur...
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23. Pike
    (hamlet) `Pike` is a hamlet within the Town of Pike in 2--> Pike, located near the center of the town at the junction of New York State Route 19|NY 19 and NY 39, was a village from 1848 to 2009. The Wyoming County Fairgrounds are in the hamlet. History : The village was inco...
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24. Pike
    (town) `Pike` is a town in Wyoming County, New York, USA. The population was 1,086 at the 2000 census. The `Town of Pike` is on the south border of the county. Pike is also the name of a hamlet in this town. History : The Town of Pike was founded in 1818 from a division of the Town of Nunda (...
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25. Pike
    (cipher) The `Pike` stream cipher was invented by Ross Anderson to be a "leaner and meaner" version of FISH after he broke FISH in 1994; the name is a humorous allusion to the Pike fish. The cipher combines ideas from A5 with the Lagged Fibonacci generators used in FISH. It is about...
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