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Definition of Pickelhaube
1. Noun. A spiked helmet worn by German soldiers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickelhaube
Literary usage of Pickelhaube
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The same consideration for the future is plainly responsible for a medal having
on the obverse a " pickelhaube," or spiked helmet, resting on a shield, ..."
2. The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a Side-issue) by Hugh George Durnford (1920)
""Scarcely a pickelhaube moved." That was his triumph—scarcely a pickelhaube had
moved. And so why could not now the British officers do likewise, ..."
3. Monarchs I Have Met by William Beatty-Kingston (1888)
"Came the pickelhaube, and down tumbled j their Castle of Indolence. The princelet
was kicked out-of-doors, the needle-gun was made ! ready to blow the ..."
4. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"The German Emperor's God, clanking round the heavenly mansions wearing a German
pickelhaube and swearing German oaths," is not satisfactory. ..."
5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"The German Emperor's God, clanking round the heavenly mansions wearing a German
pickelhaube and swearing German oaths," is not satisfactory. ..."
6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"The German Emperor's God, clanking round the heavenly mansions wearing a German
pickelhaube and swearing German oaths ..."
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