pikestaff
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pikestaff (plural pikestaffs or pikestaves)
- The wooden shaft of a pike.
- A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.
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- So soon as he got into the grave, he struck his pikestaff forcibly down; it encountered resistance in its descent
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shaft of a pike
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