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Pikestaff

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The shaft of a pike.

n. A walking stick tipped with a metal spike.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The wooden shaft of a pike

n. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The staff, or shaft, of a pike.

n. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A staff with an iron head more or less pointed and capable of serving as a weapon, formerly used by travelers, pilgrims, and wandering beggars. Also piked staff.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the staff of a pike

Word Usage

"(for I make little doubt I am descended from Brian Boroo too) when will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff a pikestaff? — that is the very best use you can make of the latter."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

staff

Cross Reference

plain as a pikestaff

Form

plain as a '''pikestaff'''

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