Half-pike: alternatives and connections

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the…

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.

The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.

A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.

A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one…

A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; --…

The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries,…

A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…

The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.

A loose, flowing upper garment

A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direc…

A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.

The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.