pike

peitsi, keihäs

kärki

maksullinen moottoritie

hauki A very long thrust thrusting spear used two-handed by infantry both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a counter-measure against cavalry assaults. The pike is not intended to be thrown.
1790, (w), Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile

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

(rfquotek)

During the earlier part of this period, the long pike disappeared from the shoe, but in the later part it returned in greater longitude than ever.

Thus the statute of (w), which forbade the fine gentlemen of those times, under the degree of a lord, to wear pikes upon their shoes or boots of more than two inches in length, was a law that savoured of oppression, because, however ridiculous the fashion might appear, the restraining of it by pecuniary penalties would serve no purpose of common utility.

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

Guo and Wu took a big lead after the second dive, a back dive in pike position, which the judges awarded three perfect tens for synchronization.

Dont pike on me like you did last time!''

—But Camus piked out, said Carole. Sartre and that lot got pissed off with him, he stood off from the war, he wouldn′t oppose it.

Holman accepted the challenge while Norton ‘piked out’; nevertheless Holman won Cootamundra against a strong candidate.

If they didn′t go ahead, it would look like they had piked, backed down.

The pike of Teneriffe how high it is? 70 miles? or 50, as Patricius holds? or 9, as Snellius demonstrates in his Eratosthenes?