pike has definitions from the fields of zoology,transportation,geography,military,medieval,arms,chemistry,food
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[ noun ] (transportation,geography) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

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(Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)

Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving .

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[ noun ] a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)

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[ noun ] (military,medieval,arms) medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1138
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
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