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Definition of Pikestaff
1. Noun. The staff of a pike.
Definition of Pikestaff
1. n. The staff, or shaft, of a pike.
Definition of Pikestaff
1. Noun. The wooden shaft of a pike ¹
2. Noun. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pikestaff
1. [n -STAFFS or -STAVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pikestaff
Literary usage of Pikestaff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"We should imagine tint nobody except Mr. pikestaff knows it now. ... Surely, the
pikestaff was pushed through the ball containing the poor man's brains, ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield by Sidney Oldall Addy (1888)
"pikestaff. There is an expression ' as plain as a pikestaff. ' ' I've lost my cap."
' There it is as plain as a pikestaff.' PILE, sb. the plain side of a ..."
3. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"Distaff, pikestaff ... pikestaff, the) renter, was a man of bus] fellow, and
withal so pial Most of this family are al ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... too) when will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff
a pikestaff?—that is the very best use you can make of the latter. ..."
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