pike

pike
{{11}}pike (n.1) "highway," 1837 shortening of TURNPIKE (Cf. turnpike) (q.v.). Originally it meant the toll booth; it came to mean the road itself 1852.
{{12}}pike (n.2) "weapon," 1510s, from M.Fr. pique "a spear, pikeman," from piquer "to pick, prick, pierce," from O.Fr. pic "sharp point or spike," perhaps ultimately from a Germanic or Celtic source. Alternative explanation traces the Old French word to L. picus "woodpecker." Also developed from O.E. pic "pointed object, pickaxe." Pike, pick, and pitch formerly were used indifferently in English. Pike position in diving, gymnastics, etc., attested from 1928, on same notion as jack-knife.
{{12}}pike (n.3) "voracious freshwater fish," early 14c., probably short for pike-fish, a special use of PIKE (Cf. pike) (n.2) in reference to the fish's long, pointed jaw (Cf. Fr. brochet "pike" (fish), from broche "a roasting spit").

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