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A spiked helmet worn by German soldiers
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pickelhaube
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Prussian spiked helmet, 1875, from German Pickelhaube , from pickel "(ice)pick, pickaxe," + haube "hood, bonnet." But the German word is attested 17c., long before the helmet type came into use, and originally meant simply "helmet;" Palmer reports a German ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Pickelhaube (plural Pickelhauben ; from the German Pickel , "point" or "pickaxe", and Haube , "bonnet", a general word for "headgear"), also Pickelhelm , was a spiked helmet worn in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by German military , firefighters ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War. (from 19th c.)
Usage examples of pickelhaube.
When her son on a visit to Berlin in 1890 was made honorary colonel of a Prussian regiment, she wrote to him: “And so my Georgie boy has become a real live filthy blue-coated Pickelhaube German soldier!
It was several minutes before Tommy, wearing the dead German's spiked pickelhaube, appeared at the top of the stone steps.