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pikestaff

noun
/ˈpaɪkstæf/

Etymology

From pike + staff.

  1. inherited from *stabaz✻
  2. inherited from *stab✻
  3. inherited from stæf — “letter of the alphabet”
  4. inherited from staf
  5. compounded as pikestaff — “pike + staff”

Definitions

  1. The wooden shaft of a pike.

  2. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.

    • So soon as he got into the grave, he struck his pikestaff forcibly down; it encountered resistance in its descent

The neighborhood

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