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Pikestaff   Listen
noun
Pikestaff  n.  
1.
The staff, or shaft, of a pike.
2.
A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.





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"Pikestaff" Quotes from Famous Books



... hashed mutton. I should dine at the club, even though I had to borrow the money. I should come to hate the cradle and its occupant, and the mother of its occupant. I should take to drink, and should blow my brains out just as the second cradle came. I can see it all as plain as a pikestaff. I often lay awake the whole night and look at it. You and I, Guss, have made a mistake from the beginning. Being poor people we have lived as though ...
— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope
... settlement of the property, we should have to do with enemies instead of friends. The man was tried for bigamy and acquitted. Would any jury get over that unless you had evidence to offer to them that was plain as a pikestaff, and absolutely incontrovertible?" ...
— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope
... wifely experience of many years to guide her, she did not ask Mr. Harley why he had gone to furious war with Storri. Mrs. Hanway-Harley would not put the query for two reasons: Mr. Harley would prevaricate; besides, Mrs. Hanway-Harley knew. It was as obvious as a pikestaff to that sagacious gentlewoman; Mr. Harley and Storri had quarreled over stocks. Mr. Harley had been detected in some effort to swindle Storri; or he had detected Storri in some effort to swindle him; men were always swindling and quarreling, according ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... argey-bargeyin' wi' a doited cratur that canna see a thing that's as plen's a pikestaff," he says, efter he had gotten his nose blawn. Syne he cowshined doon a bittie, an' says, wi' a bit snicker o' a lauch, "I maun hae you tried ...
— My Man Sandy • J. B. Salmond
... the forehead, and the whiskers, and the hair, and the shape of the head, and everything. Oh! I see it now as plain as a pikestaff,' observed Sponge. ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... I know anything that isn't as plain as a pikestaff? Common sense! Prince Koltsoff has that thing right now." Armitage grinned. "The noble guest of the house of Ronald Wellington playing the spy—and rather successfully. Quite ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry
... the lock, and stole the letter,' said Dolly. 'It's as plain as a pikestaff. It's clear ...
— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope
... pretending that there was only one of them. "Goodness; how you do fly about!" he would say ruefully to Dorothy, "An instant ago you were standing close beside me," or "How can you be here on the couch," he would say to Mabel, "when there you are as plain as a pikestaff standing ...
— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin


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