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Crew after fish — is that plain?
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pikestaff
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Word definitions for pikestaff in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pikestaff \Pike"staff`\, n. The staff, or shaft, of a pike. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping. --Sir W. Scott.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Any road, here it is, plain as a pikestaff , Miss Ruth Appleby. ▪ It's plain as a pikestaff .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The wooden shaft of a pike 2 A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the staff of a pike
Usage examples of pikestaff.
Granth had no time to thrust, but used his pikestaff as if it were a cudgel, clouting the Cimmerian in the side of the head.
Foster vaguely remembered as Howard ap Somethingorother hobbled from among the wagons, leaning heavily on a broken pikestaff, his face drawn and wan under the dirty, bloody bandages swathing his head.
When the barbarian reached out with his left hand to seize the pikestaff and shove it aside so he could close, however, Granth quickly jerked it back and then thrust forward again.
The group of men then closed around Clive and the others, holding a variety of swords, knives, and pikestaffs so that they were readily visible.
This was slung on spare pikestaffs six yards to the side of the cart to act as a shield for the men pulling it.
Several sheets of the inventory attached to the will were actually in scrabbly spidery eighteenth-century handwriting, describing pikestaffs and saddles and pewter plates which, while theoretically passing from hand to hand down the generations, had actually remained untouched and unwanted in various barns and basements and in the still-enclosed portion of the uninhabitable Castle Macdough high in the grim Monadhliath Mountains.
Something else plain as a pikestaff, too, but whether you saw it is what I don’.