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Definition of Piked
1. a. Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.
Definition of Piked
1. Adjective. Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed ¹
2. Adjective. Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips ¹
3. Verb. (past of pike) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piked
1. pike [v] - See also: pike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piked
Literary usage of Piked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"... or their direction is according to the shape of the cavity, as the stomachs
of snakes and of many fish, the livers of sharks, &c. OP THE piked WHALE ..."
2. Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"In 1870 I made a cast of a whale's head now in my museum. It was the piked whale,
... piked ..."
3. Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster, Historical and by Emma Roberts (1827)
"The King's Love of Dress—Sumptuary Laws—New Fashions—Mode of wearing the
Hair-—Penalties for making piked Shoes—Costliness of Banquets—Strange Modes of ..."
4. Memoir of Rev. William Gurley, Late of Milan, Ohio: A Local Minister of the by Leonard B. Gurley (1852)
"... Popish bishop—Murder of Mr. Gurley's brother and brother-in-law—Mr. Gurley led
out to be piked—He comes to murdering band—His feelings—How rescued from ..."
5. Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland: From the Arrival of the by Richard Musgrave (1802)
"John Walker, (hot and piked the day after do. at Shrule, ... of Carnew, were piked.
The fame day George Driver, William Rice and ..."
6. Smith's Work: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1902)
"13.—London Pattern Anvil. having a rapid vertical movement imparted from a long
camshaft. Where bolts are made in even moderate 14.— Double piked Anvil. ..."
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