“half、pike”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

half-pike

释义

half-pike Now Hist.
A small pike, having a shaft of about half the length of the full-sized one. There were two kinds; one, also called a spontoon, formerly carried by infantry officers; the other, used in ships for repelling boarders, a boarding pike.
1599Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. ii, Here's a half-pike.1631Chettle Hoffman ii. C iij, Ile trie one course with thee at the halfepike, and then goe; come draw thy pike.1698Froger Voy. 12 Their ordinary Arms are the Hanger, the Sagay [assagai], which is a very light Half-Pike.1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5358/2 The Duke of Guise with an Half-Pike in his Hand, being at the Head of the Regiment.1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Demi-pique, a half-pike, sometimes used to oppose boarders in a sea-fight.1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 422 Camp followers, armed with scythes, halfpikes, and skeans.
b. Comb., as half-pike-man.
1690J. Mackenzie Siege London-Derry 60/2 That the said Half-Pike-men..be disarmed.

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