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English
Etymology
From pike + staff.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpaɪkstæf/, /ˈpaɪkstɑːf/
Noun
pikestaff (plural pikestaffs or pikestaves)
- The wooden shaft of a pike.
- A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.
1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:So soon as he got into the grave, he struck his pikestaff forcibly down; it encountered resistance in its descent
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