pikelike

adj

Etymology

From pike + -like.

  1. inherited from *pīkaz
  2. inherited from *pīk
  3. derived from pic
  4. derived from pique
  5. inherited from pīc
  6. inherited from pyke
  7. suffixed as pikelike — “pike + like

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a pike (fish).

  2. Having the shape of a pike (weapon).

    • Before long, however, these pike-like devices were mostly superseded by spring-operated guns of various types. Most of them shot spinning disks, crosses, or small boomerangs of thin steel.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for pikelike. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA