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Pikelet :: Pikelet (n.) Alt. of Pikeli.

Spike :: Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward..

Brob :: Brob (n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping..

Flail :: Flail (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded..

Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..

Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.).

Tamarisk :: Tamarisk (n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna..

Apiked :: Apiked (a.) Trimmed.

Muskellunge :: Muskellunge (n.) A large American pike (Esox nobilitor) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish..

Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping..

Jack :: Jack (n.) The wall-eyed pike.

Wringbolt :: Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt..

Spicula :: Spicula (n.) A little spike; a spikelet.

Haplomi :: Haplomi (n. pl.) An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes..

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A hayfork.

Spiculate :: Spiculate (a.) Covered with minute spiculae, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets..

Spiciferous :: Spiciferous (a.) Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate..

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Jager :: "Jager (n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)..

Glasseye :: Glasseye (n.) A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.

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