The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-pike \Half"-pike`\ (h[aum]f"p[imac]k`), n. (Mil.)
A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry,
sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
--Tatler.
Usage examples of "half-pike".
Ramage’s dozen men, led by Jackson, grouped round the larboard shrouds gripping their odd collection of cutlasses, half-pikes, tomahawks and butcher’s cleavers.
In place of which stood Yevgeny, feet planted wide, arms up in the air, manipulating a half-pike that he had evidently ripped from the hands of a foe.
He saw Sergeant Garwood with his half-pike dressing one rank where two red-coated bodies had left gaps in the line, while he called out the time and numbers to his men as they reloaded and fired another volley into the smoke.
We plied them with small shot, half-pikes, powder-chests, and such like, and cleared our deck of them twice.