- (plural pike)
a large freshwater fish with very sharp teeth Topics Fish and shellfishc2狗鱼; 梭子鱼 a weapon with a sharp blade (= metal cutting edge) on a long wooden handle, used in the past by soldiers on foot 长矛 - (also turnpike)(North American English)
a wide road, where traffic can travel fast for long distances and that drivers must pay a toll to use 收费公路 - (dialect)
a pointed top of a hill in the north of England (英格兰北部的)山峰,陡峰 the Langdale Pikes 兰代尔皮克
Word Originsense 1 Middle English: from pike ‘weapon’ (because of the fish's pointed jaw).sense 2 and sense 4 early 16th cent.: from French pique, back-formation from piquer ‘pierce’, from pic ‘pick, pike’; compare with Old English pīc ‘point, prick’ (of unknown origin). Sense (4) is apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare with West Norwegian dialect pīk ‘pointed mountain’.