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Definition of Pikes
1. pike [v] - See also: pike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pikes
Literary usage of Pikes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"That to the fird twelve pikes the water rofe to, they reckoned twenty-eight digits
taken from the two pikes added, to make the twelve pikes of twenty-four ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"John Croît was called again— Fletcher told me the pikes were preparing. ...
Did not see any pikes or pistols on either occasion. Could hear distinctly all ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1818)
"—Yes. he desired ше to go, thinking Mr. Yorke would advance some money towards
those pikes. Now, I think, if I take you right, when you went there, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"GAE-pikes, OLD AND YOUNG. BY PROFESSOR BURT G. WILDER, ... SOME readers of THE
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY may never have seen gar-pikes, or even heard of them. ..."
5. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis (1896)
"He advised them to have pikes and guns, and, if necessary, to sell their coats
and buy them weapons. A man, he said, walked the streets more proudly with a ..."
6. The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman: Together with Vita de Dowel by William Langland, Walter William Skeat (1884)
"257 ; pikes, pi. pikes, pointed poles, b. 16. 24 n ; sharp stakes, Piked, pt.
pi. picked as with a sharp instrument, hoed (as we should now say), b. 6. 113. ..."
7. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans, Edith R. Hall (1843)
"... pikes holden length-ways from one to another, encompassed us round as sheep
in a pound ; and there we stood a pretty time, while they were picking up ..."
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