- A
pike is a long
thrusting spear formerly used in
European warfare from the Late
Middle Ages and most of the
early modern period, and
wielded by foot soldiers...
- If not in
closed quarters,
defenders sometimes resorted to the
naval boarding pike,
trying to kill or
wound boarders while keeping them at a distance,...
-
leading staff by
which troops were directed. The half-
pike,
sometimes known as a
boarding pike, was also used as a
weapon on
board ships until the late...
- He was a
large and
formidable man in
Muslim garb, and
armed with a
boarding pike he
thrust his
weapon at Decatur's chest.
Armed with a cutl**** Decatur...
- Bulger, one of Shannon's Irishmen,
charged into the
Americans wielding a
boarding pike and
shouting Gaelic curses – "And then did I not spit them, beJaysus...
- blue
short jacket and trousers, and
weapons including a cutl**** and
boarding pike. The
company was
headquartered at a gun-house near the
Providence naval...
- The
Columbia Pike–Farragut
Square Line,
designated Route 16Y, is a rush hour-only
MetroExtra bus
route operated by the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit...
- on
board were a
number of
small arms: cutl****es, pistols, muskets,
boarding pikes, ****xes and blunderbusses.
After rechristening the
vessel as Snap...
- Mc
Pike’s school. "The
Traveling Boarding School".
Boise W****ly.
Archived from the
original on 2016-12-20.
Retrieved 2010-04-10. "Think by
Joann Mc
Pike"...
- the
second wave were
armed with more
defensive weapons such as the
boarding pike. The cutl**** may have had its
origins in the hanger, a
short curved...
