Found 3 hits - Term: pike perch, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : 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now superseded by the bayonet.
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2. a pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a
shield or target. --beau. fl.
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3. a hayfork. obs. or prov. eng. --tusser.
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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.
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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
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wall-eye \wall"-eye`\, n. see wall-eyed.
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1. an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or
whitish color; -- said usually of horses. --booth.
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note: jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the
crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." but glaucoma
is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is
wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural
blemish. --tully. in the north of england, as brockett
states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white
of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
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2. zool.
a an american fresh-water food fish stizostedion
vitreum having large and prominent eyes; -- called
also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and
wall-eyed perch.
b a california surf fish holconotus argenteus.
c the alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
1913 webster
see also:
wall-eyed stizostedion vitreum glasseye pike perch yellow pike wall-eyed perch
holconotus argenteus wall-eyed herring
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
pike perch
n : any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family syn: pike-perch
see also:
pike-perch
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