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Definition of Pikestaffs
1. pikestaff [n] - See also: pikestaff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pikestaffs
Literary usage of Pikestaffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of State Trials: New Seriesby Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1888)
"... to tho number pikestaffs clubs firearms Runs pistols and other of six thousand,
and that they marte a great offensive weapons and with seditious and ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"There is no more gallant peasant rebellion in history than that of the Wexford
croppies and their priests, who, with their own unaided pikestaffs, ..."
3. Perspectives on Crime and Justice: 1996-1997 Lecture Series by James Q. Wilson, Peter Reuter, Mark H. Moore, Cathy S. Widom, Norval Morris (1998)
"To increase the symbolic and deterrent effects of execution, he proclaimed that
the heads of executed murderers would be set on pikestaffs high on the ..."
4. The Publications of the Champlain Society by Champlain Society (1908)
"They are used for making the Biscayan pikestaffs ; one could make enough of them
to supply all the armies of the King. If those who command, or will command ..."
5. William Penn as the Founder of Two Commonwealths by Augustus C. Buell (1904)
"Hardly had the restored King warmed his throne-seat when heads on pikestaffs
began to adorn London Bridge. The fury spread. It is not the province of this ..."
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