Word Finder - pikes

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A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.

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A sharp point, such as that of the weapon.

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A large haycock.

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Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.

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A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.

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A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.

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Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.

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Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England.

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A pick, a pickaxe.

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A hayfork.

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A penis.

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Short for turnpike.

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There is heavy traffic on the Mass Pike

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A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.

We're trying to figure out what Darkyn is doing planting a shape-shifter demon on the mortal realm, Rhyn said, referring to the demon lord who wanted both their heads on pikes.

This is described as having "an head about a quarter of a yard long, a staffe of two yards long put into their head, twelve iron pikes round about, and one in the end to stop with."

A large number of pikes were collected and stored in Dublin during the spring of 1803, but fire-arms and ammunition were not plentiful.

At the federation festival of the 14th of July 1790 (the "Feast of Pikes") he officiated at the altar reared in the middle of the Champ de Mars.

South Park, directly west of Pikes Peak, is one of the highest basins (nearly 10,000 ft.), and gains its name from the scattered, park-like growth of large pine trees; it is drained chiefly by the South Platte river (Missouri-Mississippi system), through a deep gorge in the dissected mass of the plateau-like Front Range.

Their main force was infantry, armed with javelins in the front ranks and pikes behind, formed into a phalanx and supported by camelmen and horsemen on the flanks.

At the accession of Prince Charles, the Rumanian army consisted of raw levies, led by adventurers from any country, provided with no uniform, and, in many cases, armed only with pikes or sabres.

The Protestant religion was forced upon the Irish in a foreign tongue and garb and at the point of foreign pikes; and national sentiment supported the ancient faith and the ancient habits inresistancetothe Saxon innovations.

This lake collects waters by the Brathay from Langdale, the head of which, between Bow Fell and Langdale Pikes (2401 ft.), is very fine; and by the Rothay from Dunmail Raise and the small lakes of Grasmere and Rydal Water, embowered in woods.

It was perhaps hoped that the English cavalry would plunge into the morass, for no serious precautions were taken as to the flanks, but in any case Wallace desired no more than to receive an attack at the halt, trusting wholly to his massed pikes.

Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC) is a thriving community of campuses and satellite sites providing higher education to first-time and returning college students.

Each of Pikes Peak Community College's three campuses offers general education courses, but they also offer site-specific degree programs.

The Pikes Peak area of Colorado, south of Denver, includes Colorado Springs and the Air Force Academy there as well as the magestic Pikes Peak and the surrounding Garden of the Gods Park.

South of Pikes Peak, you'll find Cripple Creek, a sleepy mining town, little changed since the late 19th century.

In 2005, Stroud teamed up with the band The Northern Pikes.

Calling themselves Les Stroud and the Pikes, the group toured locally and eventually released a CD called Long Walk Home.

A far more radical remodelling of the army was undertaken at Babylon in 323, by which the old phalanx system was to be given up for one in which the unit was to be composed of Macedonians with pikes and Asiatics with missile arms in combination - a change calculated to be momentous both from a military point of view in the coming wars, and from a political, in the close fusion of Europeans and Asiatics.

Go say mass I" drove off the Scottish archers and men-at-arms and charged the nearest square of pikes, which repulsed them with heavy losses.