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Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. & v., Peak, Pique.]

  1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.

  2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.
    --Beau. & Fl.

  3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    --Tusser.

  4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Wright. Raymond.

  5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]

  6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.

  7. A turnpike; a toll bar.
    --Dickens.

  8. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

    Note: 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic ( Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.

    Sand pike (Zo["o]l.), the lizard fish.

    Sea pike (Zo["o]l.), the garfish (a) .

Wiktionary
gedd

alt. The European pike. n. The European pike.

Usage examples of "gedd".

Sergeant Gedd, foremost of the standard-bearers riding with him today, and was about to pursue his own business.

Sergeant Gedd and the two other men carrying the banners urged their horses through low drifts and up the side of a ditch to get to the fore of him.

At the same time he heard Lusin and Gedd saying to each other, with better cheer, well, that was a relief, no drifts between them and a warm fire.

Uwen asked, from the side and behind, and Gedd cast an anxious look in his direction.

Uwen said to the gate wardens, and waved a signal at Gedd and the standards.

He had his shield, and Uwen carried his own, but his guards, who had had the banners, had their hands unencumbered, and Sergeant Gedd took the idea to snatch a stub of a candle from its holder and borrow fire from the torch-bearer.

Then Gedd went ahead, enterprisingly setting light to at least one candle in every sconce, all the way to the upper floor, making the steps more visible, bringing a wan, ordinary light to the heart of the Zeide.

There was the Wolf and the Elk, the Falcon, the Swan, the Boar, the Bear, and the Green-tree: the Willow-bush, the Gedd, the Water-bank and the Wood-Ousel, the Steer, the Mallard and the Roe-deer: all these were of the Mid-mark.