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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



... 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


Words linked to "Pikestaff" :   staff, pike


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