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 It is now superseded by the bayonet.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.
  4. A pick.
  5. A pointed or peaked hill.
  6. A large haycock.
  7. A turnpike; a toll bar.
    8. Gar pike .
    See under Gar.
    Pike perch (Zoöl.),
    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 (Zoöl.),
    a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Balænoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.
    Sand pike (Zoöl.),
    the lizard fish.
    Sea pike (Zoöl.),
    the garfish (a).