Pikes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PIKES in dictionary:

VERB:
• PIKE, to pierce with a long spear
• kill or thrust (someone) through with a pike
• withdraw from or go back on (a plan or agreement).
• let (someone) down.
NOUN:
• a long-bodied predatory freshwater fish with a pointed snout and large teeth, of both Eurasia and North America.
• used in names of predatory fish with large teeth other than the true pike, e.g. garpike.
• an infantry weapon with a pointed steel or iron head on a long wooden shaft.
• (in names of hills in the Lake District) a hill with a peaked top
• a jackknife position in diving or gymnastics.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pierce with a pike (a long spear)

Words related to PIKES

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How to use PIKES in a sentence

• So, like a storme Beating upon a wood of lustie Pines, Which though they shake they keepe their footing fast, Our pikes their horses stood.
• If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the pikes with a vice, and they are dangerous weapons for maids.
• In fact, they got into such close quarters with them that the enemy could not employ their pikes or long swords.
• The men seemed to think that for the time there was nothing more to be done, laid their pikes against the wall, and assumed, Harry thought, a more friendly aspect.
• There was, however, an entire absence of any arms save pikes.
• Those who reached the opposite side of the trench were run through with pikes as they strove to climb from it.
• His ruder followers, and even the women and children, he would arm with pikes to defend the fortifications.
• Their fire-arms were now loaded, and their bayonets and short pikes, the latter shod and pointed with iron, were also got ready.
• This, by means of our sticks and pikes, we found to be about three feet deep, and eight yards broad.
• When, from behind their frail defences, the French saw the Spanish pikes and partisans glittering into view, they fled in a panic, and took refuge among the hills.
• Many of the English fell into the pits prepared for them, and the Scottish shields and pikes broke the attack of those who evaded these obstacles.
• In an hour the doors were burst open, and before the sun went down the heads of the governor and his officials were being carried on pikes through the streets of Paris.
• Suggested on the banks of the Brathay by the sight of Langdale Pikes.
• It was to see half a dozen pikes pointed at his ribs.
• In case the enemy should effect a landing on the decks, the pikes may, from their length and the press of the contending parties, become less efficient than the swords.
• Here was performed a very courageous and warlike resistance by the Spaniards, both with muskets, pikes, stones and swords.
• We found that the Fenian organization was raising money and manufacturing pikes, and in the year 1864 they held an Irish National Fair for the purpose of increasing their fund.
• Again the English swords and pikes dripped red with Spanish blood.
• Thus empowered the people went to work with such good effect that within thirty-six hours sixty thousand pikes had been forged.
• One part of the people will march to the frontier, another will throw up intrenchments, and the rest will defend our cities with pikes.
• But in the lane he tripped over Fabri, he fell headlong, and only raised himself in time to gain the gateway a few feet in front of the avenging pikes.
• The unreasoning crowd, armed with pikes and staves, cared nothing for these words.
• Pikes were carried like staves, the steel head hidden up the long white burgess sleeve.
• The people began to attack him, throwing lances, pikes, arrows, and stones.
• Nelly ventured out sometimes to look at the high glories of Wetherlam and the Pikes, under occasional gleams of sun.
• That nation used lances or pikes much longer than ours, having heads of sharpened stone, and Barrientos was directed to obtain 300 of these lances for our use.
• They cleft his head, transfixed him with their pikes, and ran him through with more than barbaric ferocity.
• Pikes, which perhaps, had been handled by Miles Standish’s soldiers, now made their appearance again.
• Our boarders were ordered to be ready with their pikes to resist any such attempt, while our guns on the main deck were sending death and destruction among the crew of the enemy.

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