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half-pike
[ haf-pahyk, hahf- ]
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Origin of half-pike1
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Example Sentences
Claude bent over one, found what he wanted—a half-pike—and glided to the door of the stairs that led to the roof.
The first (A49—plate 24) is a harness for jousting on foot, with the two-handed sword, mace, or half-pike.
Desmond, slim and athletic, dashed in upon the enemy with his half pike as they recoiled before Bulger's whirling musket.
It seems originally to have been rather a short weapon, a kind of half-pike or dart.
Half-pike a short wooden staff, upon one end of which was a steel head.
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