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   pike

   /pʌɪk/

   noun

   • 1. an infantry weapon with a pointed steel or iron head on a long wooden shaft. historical
   • 2. (in names of hills in the Lake District) a hill with a peaked top: Northern English "Scafell Pike"

   verb

   • 1. kill or thrust (someone) through with a pike: historical "many prisoners were taken out and piked"

   Word Origin early 16th century: from French pique, back-formation from piquer ‘pierce’, from pic ‘pick, pike’; compare with Old Englishpīc ‘point, prick’ (of unknown origin). pike2 (sense 2 of the noun) is apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare with West Norwegian dialect pīk ‘pointed mountain’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • P

     3

   • I

     1

   • K

     5

   • E

     1

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