Usually means: Sharp, long spears for thrusting.
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  1. pikes: Merriam-Webster
  2. pikes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pikes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pike's, Pikes, pike's, pikes: Wordnik
  5. pikes: Wiktionary
  6. pikes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. Pikes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Pikes: Rhymezone
  9. pikes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. pikes: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pike)

noun:  (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
noun:  A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
noun:  A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
noun:  Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
noun:  (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
noun:  (fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
noun:  (historical) A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
noun:  (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
noun:  (obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.
noun:  (obsolete, British, dialectal) A hayfork.
noun:  (obsolete, often euphemistic) A penis.
verb:  (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
verb:  (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
verb:  (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
verb:  (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
noun:  (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
verb:  (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, British, thieves' cant) To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Sierra County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township.
noun:  (US, slang) A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
noun:  (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike. [A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.]
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From "The Falcon" by Richard Lovelace:

Swift as the thunderbolt he strikes
Too sure upon the stand of pikes;


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