pikes
Long-snouted freshwater fish
Pikes are long wooden shafts with pointed metal heads, used historically as infantry weapons against cavalry.
The word also names several types of fish with elongated bodies and pointed snouts—the northern pike being the most familiar.
In American dialect, a pike is a turnpike or toll road: Take the pike to the next exit.
To come down the pike is to appear or arrive: the best opportunity to come down the pike in years.
Non-saline aquatic environment
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
- northernToward the top
- muskellungeLarge predatory freshwater fish
- pickerelSmall North American pike
ambush · toothy · elongated · angler · lure · trolling · lake · stream
Pole with sharp point
- halberdAxe-headed infantry pike
- lanceLong thrusting weapon
- infantryGround combat troops
- phalanxMassed infantry formation
formation · pikeman · shaft · point · charge · cavalry · regiment · drill
Fee for passage
- highwayMajor road for travel
- expresswayLimited-access highway
- freewayHighway without tolls
- tollboothRoad fee collection point
motorway · interstate · travel · commute · route · thoroughfare · driving · plaza
freshwater
Non-saline aquatic environment
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
- northernToward the top
- muskellungeLarge predatory freshwater fish
pickerel · ambush · toothy · elongated · angler · lure · trolling · lake · stream · weedy
spear
Pole with sharp point
phalanx · formation · pikeman · shaft · point · charge · cavalry · regiment · drill · warfare
toll
Fee for passage
- highwayMajor road for travel
- expresswayLimited-access highway
- freewayHighway without tolls
tollbooth · motorway · interstate · travel · commute · route · thoroughfare · driving · plaza · barrier
peak
Utmost height attained
- summitPeak or diplomatic gathering
- elevationHeight above reference point
- ColoradoWestern rectangular state
fourteener · climb · ascent · trail · alpine · cog railway · Zebulon · range · view · altitude
spike
Sharp rise or point
sharp · barb · tip · impale · thrust · pierce · metal · iron · fence · railing
- arms and armorswords, shields, helmets, daggers, axes
- ancient weaponssword, swords, shield, shields, bow
- medieval armsswords, shields, axes, spears, bows
- circus artstrapeze, silks, aerial silks, lyra, flying trapeze
- Early Modern Warfaremuskets, musketeers, pikemen, cannons, cannon
- 1798 Rebellionpikemen, insurgents, French invasion, Wexford, green flag
pikesdaggers
Short double-edged blades
knives · dirks · short swords · stilettos · hand axes
pikesfreeways
Toll-absent highways
public roads · local roads · back roads · side streets · country roads
- coming down the pikeAbout to happen
- come down the pikeArrive eventually, become available
- northern pikeToothy freshwater game fish
- Pike's PeakColorado mountain, over 14,000 feet
- Pikes PeakColorado's most visited summit
- Pike Place MarketHistoric Seattle public market