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pikelike en · ADJ

Etymology

From pike + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a pike (fish).
2. Having the shape of a pike (weapon).
   • Before long, however, these pike-like devices were mostly superseded by spring-operated guns of various types. Most of them shot spinning disks, crosses, or small boomerangs of thin steel. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 43:

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