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A small pike, having a shaft of about half the length of the full-sized one. There were two kinds; one, also called a spontoon, formerly carried…
= half-pike, n.. Obsolete. rare.
A species of half-pike or halberd carried by infantry officers in the 18th century (from about 1740).
A half pike carried by an infantry officer; = spontoon, n.
(See quot. 1856, and cf. sarissa, n.)