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pike

1. any of several large predatory freshwater teleost fishes of the genus Esox, esp E. lucius (northern pike), having a broad flat snout, strong teeth, and an elongated body covered with small scales: family Esocidae

2. any of various similar fishes

pike

Northern English dialect a pointed or conical hill

pike

³, piked

(of the body position of a diver) bent at the hips but with the legs straight

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pike

[pīk]

(geology)

A mountain or hill which has a peaked summit.

(vertebrate zoology)

Any of about five species of predatory fish which compose the family Esocidae in the order Clupeiformes; the body is cylindrical and compressed, with cycloid scales that have deeply scalloped edges.

Pike

“he expectorates vehemently” [Am. Lit.: At Home and Abroad, Hart, 655]

See: Coarseness

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Fans of Robert Crais' fine series of private eye novels featuring Elvis Cole and Joe Pike can predict what happens next in "A Dangerous Man." Pike, the dangerous man of the title, catches the car at a stoplight, smashes the driver's side window, drags the driver and his accomplice out, and roughs them up enough to give one of them a concussion.

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I also dearly loved the author's insight into Cole and Pike's relationship and something of Pike's character when, needing to make Pike aware of something he had just discovered in his investigation, Cole calls him: "Pike had been awake for almost sixty hours, but he answered on the first ring.

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No evidence was offered against his co-accused Jonathan Pike, 48, from Ystradfellte, Aberdare.

Man admits manslaughter after death at golf club

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Dechert corporate partner Gerrie Sinatra led the team that advised private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners in its "going private" acquisition of Pike Corp., one of the nation's largest specialty construction and engineering firms serving the electric power industry, according to the firm.