halfpike
English
Etymology
half + pike
Noun
halfpike (plural halfpikes)
- (military) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for halfpike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)