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 Pike n.
 1. Mil. A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
 2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.
 3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
 4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.]
 5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
 6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.]
 7. A turnpike; a toll bar.
 8. Zool. sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
 Note: ☞ Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
 Gar pike. See under Gar.
 Pike perch Zool., any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
 Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.
 Pike whale Zool., a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Balænoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.
 Sand pike Zool., the lizard fish.
 Sea pike Zool., the garfish (a).
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 Gar n.  Zool. (a) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish. (b) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.
 Gar pike, or Garpike Zool., a large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.

 Gar pike or Gar·pike. Zool. See under Gar.
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