highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
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a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
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medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
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any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
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Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus woodpecker (see {Pie} magpie), and E. spike. Cf. {Pick}, n. & v., {Peak}, {Pique}.] 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 It is now superseded by the bayonet.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. --Beau. & Fl.
3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond.
5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens.
8. (Zo["o]l.) 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic ({Bal[ae]noptera rostrata}), having an elongated snout; -- called also {piked whale}.
{Sand pike} (Zo["o]l.), the lizard fish.
{Sea pike} (Zo["o]l.), the garfish (a) .
"The legislators are feeling the faint heat coming down the pike and it's just getting hotter," said Brenda Hucks, director of South Carolina Citizens for Life. "They're (also) going to feel heat from pro-abortion folks and the media.
"We're hearing a lot about new inventions coming down the pike," says Kevin Fay of the Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy. "We're not saying there aren't technological solutions out there to be found.
The arms-control wing of the Democratic Party and the Mondale wing of the GOP would be happy with Drew Lewis, who would almost certainly be named chief of staff once Donald Regan's head was on that pike.
Big buildings never look big, their grey towers and high walls protruding like outcrops of rock. The rivers carry gudgeon, pike, perch and rudd.
As a result, the state had to limit rod-and-reel catches of walleyed pike on 254 lakes.
Mission control said Columbia's trajectory was "right down the middle of the pike," _ a perfect path. The two booster rockets floated down on parachutes into the Atlantic Ocean, within sight of recovery ships.
Last week, the news spread quickly when someone pulled a big northern pike out of the lake.
It squeezed through the 4's immense tailgate opening but overhung the load floor, making the car look like a pike trying to swallow a carp of twice its weight.
"The use of that technology will be the biggest boon to advertisers that we have seen come down the pike in a long time," says Michael D. Drexler, an executive vice president at ad agency Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt.
We have a lot of products coming down the pike.
Fishing is a public right, and for a nominal fee you can try for trout, perch, carp or pike.
"I don't see any great blockbuster coming down the pike that will make a major improvement in Dow's profitability over the next three to four years," says William R. Young of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
KKR may believe more deals are coming down the pike," van Doren said.
He said oil had been carried at least eight miles by Goldstream Creek, and officials were concerned about Northern pike and whitefish that had just finished spawning.
(Inaudible) _ a great big, fat one coming over the pike.