A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.

A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.

A pointed or peaked hill.

A specialized infantry staff weapon with a small leaf-shaped head, often averaging fourteen to twenty-two feet in length; used as a hedge against cavalry charges.

the body bends at the waist and the legs remain straight

Where the legs are out straight in front of you, and you touch your toes.

A position in which the body is bent at the hips, with knees straight and toes pointed.

An air position in which the body is "jackknifed," bent forward at the waist with the legs straight.

A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.

highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh

any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere

Any of the fishes of the family Esocidæ. Represented in the BWCA by a single, but prominent species, the Northern Pike ( Esox lucius), typically refered to simply as Northern. (The Walleye, sometimes erroneously referred to as "Walleyed Pike" is, in fact, a Perch). The name is short for pike-fish, a reference to the long, pointed snout resembling the pike, an iron tipped staff. Rather like the French, where brochet is the fish, but broche is a spit.