Meaning of pike In English

• 0 a large fish that lives in lakes and rivers and eats other fish

• 1 a turnpike US :

  • the Leesburg Pike

• 2 a long sharp stick used in the past as a weapon by soldiers on foot:

  • A soldier with a pike could bring down a charging horse.

• 3 a position in the sports of diving, trampolining, or gymnastics in which the body is bent at the waist and the legs are straight:

  • Her coach asked her to do a triple pike - a difficult dive to pull off from 10 metres.

  • Their best dive came in the fifth round – a forward 2 and a half somersaults and 3 twists in pike.

• 4 a word used in northern England for a hill with a pointed top

• 5 a large fish with sharp teeth that lives in lakes and rivers

• 6 short form ofturnpike:

  • Traffic is slow along Rockville Pike.