8. (Zoˆl.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in
Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also
pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are
names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye.
Gar pike. See under Gar. -- Pike perch (Zoˆl.), 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 (Zoˆl.), a finback whale of the North
Atlantic (BalÊnoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called
also piked whale. -- Sand pike (Zoˆl.), the lizard fish. -- Sea pike
(Zoˆl.), the garfish (a).
Piked (?), a. Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked;
pointed. "With their piked targets bearing them down." Milton.
Pike`-de*vant" (?), n. [Pike point (fr. F. pique) + F. devant before.]
A pointed beard. [Obs.]
{ Pike"let (?), Pike"lin (?), } n. A light, thin cake or muffin. [Prov.
Eng.] Wright.
Pike"man (?), n.; pl. Pikeman (&?;). 1. A soldier armed with a pike.
Knolles.