Found 3 hits - Term: gar pike, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gar pike \gar" pike`\ or garpike \gar"pike`\ zool.
see under gar.
1913 webster
see also:
gar
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gar \gar\, n. prob. as. g=ar dart, spear, lance. the name is
applied to the fish on account of its long and slender body
and pointed head. cf. goad, gore, v. zool.
a any slender marine fish of the genera belone and
tylosurus. see garfish.
b the gar pike. see alligator gar under alligator,
and gar pike.
1913 webster
gar pike, or garpike zool., a large, elongated ganoid
fish of the genus lepidosteus, of several species,
inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical
america.
1913 webster
see also:
goad gore belone tylosurus garfish alligator gar
alligator gar pike garpike lepidosteus
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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now superseded by the bayonet.
1913 webster
2. a pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a
shield or target. --beau. fl.
1913 webster
3. a hayfork. obs. or prov. eng. --tusser.
1913 webster
4. a pick. prov. eng. --wright. raymond.
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5. a pointed or peaked hill. r.
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6. a large haycock. prov. eng. --halliwell.
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7. a turnpike; a toll bar. --dickens.
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8. zool. 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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
gar pike. see under gar.
pike perch zool., 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 zool., a finback whale of the north atlantic
balaenoptera rostrata, having an elongated snout; --
called also piked whale.
sand pike zool., the lizard fish.
sea pike zool., the garfish
a .
1913 webster
see also:
pie pick peak pique esox lucius pickerel
gedd luce jack wall-eye gar pike
gar pike perch stizostedion lucioperca sauger
pike pole pike whale balaenoptera rostrata piked whale sand pike
sea pike
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