Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The head of a pike or spear.
- noun In ichthyology, a fish of the family Luciocephalidæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
head of apike (the weapon) - noun A type of
mouthbrooder (fish) of the family Luciocephalidae
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Examples
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Sergeants drove spontoons hard into the mass of Frenchmen, skewering them with the pikehead, twisting it free and driving it forward again.
Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995
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Give you, it weakens the pikehead; but 'tis a gradely ornament. '
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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He went on to tell, as if it had been a rosary, the names of the ruined women that the holes in his pikehead represented.
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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'Sir,' the Lincolnshire man answered, 'you say 'tis a folly to make small holes in a pikehead.
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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'So here a be,' he drawled, 'cutting little holes in my pikehead.'
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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He turned to Hogben, who was sitting on the ground furbishing his pikehead.
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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(Incidentally ’tis believed that his harpened before Gage’s Fane for it has to be over this booty spotch, though some hours to the wester, that ex-Colonel House’s preterpost heiress is to re-turn unto the outstretcheds of Dweyr O’Michael’s loinsprung the blunterbusted pikehead which his had hewn in hers, pro-longed laughter words).
Finnegans Wake 2006
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