To equip with a turnpike.
To assume a pike position.
Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,
A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
A winding stairway.