Lexicographical Neighbors of Pikestaves
Literary usage of Pikestaves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1844)
"Their turbans and garments were stained with that gloomy colour: two black
standards, on pikestaves nine cubits long, were borne aloft in the van of Abu ..."
2. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... list—the earliest detailed one in our history—of articles held to be contraband
of war: cables, masts, anchors, cordage, pitch, tar, tallow, pikestaves, ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"... straw, &c.,] the over-rathes, the cross-somer [rails] the keys and pikestaves.
(Fits.) Tusser, in describing " husbandry furniture," gives the following ..."
4. The Collaboration of Webster and Dekker by Frederick Erastus Pierce (1909)
"(c) Westward Ho V. 4: Say you should rattle up the constable, thrash all the
country together, hedge in the house with flails, pikestaves, and pitchforks, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1844)
"Their turbans and garments were stained with that gloomy colour: two black
standards, on pikestaves nine cubits long, were borne aloft in the van of Abu ..."
6. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... list—the earliest detailed one in our history—of articles held to be contraband
of war: cables, masts, anchors, cordage, pitch, tar, tallow, pikestaves, ..."
7. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"... straw, &c.,] the over-rathes, the cross-somer [rails] the keys and pikestaves.
(Fits.) Tusser, in describing " husbandry furniture," gives the following ..."
8. The Collaboration of Webster and Dekker by Frederick Erastus Pierce (1909)
"(c) Westward Ho V. 4: Say you should rattle up the constable, thrash all the
country together, hedge in the house with flails, pikestaves, and pitchforks, ..."
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