Pickerel: alternatives and connections

A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped bla…

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the…

The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hi…

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

The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.

A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.

A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.

The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.

A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel gu…

The European pike.

A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.

A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.

The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.

A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.

To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatch…