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单词 pike
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pike1/piek/ noun (pl pikes collectively pike)

a large long-snouted bony fish widely distributed in cooler parts of the N hemisphere and valued for food and as a game fish: Esox lucius

any of various fish related to or resembling the pike

[Middle English, from pike pikestaff, spike; from the shape of its head]

pike2noun

a weapon consisting of a long wooden shaft with a pointed steel head that was used by foot soldiers until superseded by the bayonet

[early French pique, from piquer to prick, ultimately from Latin picus woodpecker]

pike3verb trans

formerly, to attack, pierce, or kill (somebody) with a pike


pike4noun

a body position, e.g. in diving, in which the hands touch the toes or clasp the legs at the knees, the hips are bent forward, and the knees are straight

piked adj
[prob from pike1]

pike5noun

NAmer = turnpike


pike6noun

a point or spike

[Old English pīc]

pike7noun

Brit a mountain or hill, esp in the Lake District, with a peaked summit

[Middle English, perhaps of Scandinavian origin]

pike8verb intrans

NAmer, Aus, NZ, informal (usu + on/out) to let somebody down by avoiding doing something or failing to do it

He was supposed to be giving us a hand but he's piked on us

[orig in the sense ‘to go away’, perhaps from pikestaff, a pilgrim's staff, with the idea of taking up the staff when setting out]
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