Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
picked .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Furnished with a
pike ; ending in apoint ;peaked ;pointed - adjective Describing a
dive in which theknees are kept straight, but the body isbent at a right-angle at thehips - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pike .
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Examples
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For biceps and back, progress from modified chin-ups (bar at chest height, with feet on ground and body in piked position, underhand grip) to regular chin-ups.
Big Buck Boot Camp: Your Complete Guide to Better Whitetail Deer Hunting Skills 2007
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Boynet, whom I mentioned above, is accoutered with the coiffure called piked horns, which, if there were any signs in
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Suiting action to words, off he "piked" for the gate.
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Peasants storm London, and within the week, their king breaks every promise, and the heads of their leaders are piked on London Bridge.
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Waterfield still needed to hold his nerve on his final dive but got the job done with a score of 91.80 points for his back two-and-a-half somersaults, two-and-a-half twists piked to win gold with a total of 494.25.
Peter Waterfield holds his nerve to deny Tom Daley platform gold 2011
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He wanted the children who had been playing tag in the dark to appear at his piked gate; he wanted someone from the lawn party to arrive by boat at the back of his property and invite him over; he wanted clothes on his body to take away the sense of nakedness and vulnerability that turned the backs of his legs to pudding.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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By Darkman, July 7, 2010 @ 2:06 pm sorry I piked, But I could not stay awake.
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The steer hit me just below the hips, and as he lifted his head and tossed me in the air, I tucked my chin and piked.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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Flooding in Nashville, Tenn., left cars piked on top of one another, and river levels continued to rise Monday after 18 inches of weekend rain.
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CLETE SAT DOWN at one of the checker-cloth-covered tables in the corner of the restaurant, with a view of the intersection and the dark structural mass of The Shadows looming inside acres of live oaks bordered by a piked fence and walls of bamboo.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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