Fell vs Pike - What's the difference?
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To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
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To strike down, kill, destroy.
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(fall)
That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
An animal skin, hide.
* Shakespeare:
(textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
* 2006, Colette Wolff, The Art of Manipulating Fabric , page 296:
A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
* 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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* 1971 Catherine Cookson, The Dwelling Place
A wild field or upland moor.
Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.
(label) Eager; earnest; intent.
* (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
Gall; anger; melancholy.
* Spenser:
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(mining) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
English causative verbs
English irregular simple past forms
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A very long thrusting spear used two-handed by infantry both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a counter-measure against cavalry assaults. The pike is not intended to be thrown.
* 1790 , , Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
A sharp point, such as that of the weapon.
Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox'', especially the northern pike, ''Esox lucius .
A turnpike.
A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe, found in old-fashioned footwear.
* 1861 , The comprehensive history of England Vol. 1
* 1904 , George Nicholls, A History of the English Poor Law in Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People
(diving) A dive position with knees straight and a tight bend at the hips.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 167:
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(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hayfork.
(obsolete) A pick.
A large haycock.
To attack, prod, or injure someone with a pike.
To quit or back out of a promise.
* 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, How Simone De Beauvoir Died in Australia ,
* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
* 2008 , Chris Pash, The Last Whale , Fremantle Press, Australia,
A mountain peak or summit.
*, II.ii.3:
*:The pike of Teneriffe how high it is? 70 miles? or 50, as Patricius holds? or 9, as Snellius demonstrates in his Eratosthenes ?
As nouns the difference between fell and pike
is that fell is fur, pelt (hairy skin of an animal) while pike is drop.fell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fellen, from (etyl) fellan, .Verb
(en verb)- Stand, or I'll fell thee down.
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Verb
(head)Etymology 2
(etyl) 'skin', Russian plená'' 'pelt', (etyl) plah 'to cover', Ancient Greek ''péllas 'skin').Noun
(en noun)- We are still handling our ewes, and their fells , you know, are greasy.
Verb
(en verb)- To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) fell, . Compare (m).Noun
(en noun)- The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
- While hammers fell like ringing bells,
- In places deep, where dark things sleep,
- In hollow halls beneath the fells.
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- She didn't know at first why she stepped off the road and climbed the bank on to the fells; it wasn't until she found herself skirting a disused quarry that she realised where she was making for, and when she reached the place she stood and gazed at it. It was a hollow within an outcrop of rock, not large enough to call a cave but deep enough to shelter eight people from the rain, and with room to spare.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) fel, . See felon.Adjective
(er)- while we devise fell tortures for thy faults
- And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind
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- I am so fell to my business.
Derived terms
* (l)Noun
(-)- Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell .
- I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
Statistics
*Etymology 5
Noun
pike
English
(wikipedia pike)Etymology 1
(etyl) ultimately a variant form of pick, with meaning narrowed. Cognate with Dutch piek, dialectal German Peik, Norwegian pik. pique.Noun
(en noun)- Each had a small ax in the foreangle of his saddle, and a pike about fourteen feet long, the weapon with which he charged;
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- (Charles Dickens)
- During the earlier part of this period, the long pike disappeared from the shoe, but in the later part it returned in greater longitude than ever.
- Thus the statute of , which forbade the fine gentlemen of those times, under the degree of a lord, to wear pikes upon their shoes or boots of more than two inches in length, was a law that savoured of oppression, because, however ridiculous the fashion might appear, the restraining of it by pecuniary penalties would serve no purpose of common utility.
- She sprang into the air and jack-knifed into a clumsy pike before following her hands into the water.
- Guo and Wu took a big lead after the second dive, a back dive in pike position, which the judges awarded three perfect tens for synchronization.
- (Tusser)
- (Raymond)
- (Wright)
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* ''see: northern pikeDerived terms
* come down the pike * garpike * pikehead * pikestaff * pikemanVerb
(pik)- Don't pike on me like you did last time!
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- —But Camus piked out, said Carole. Sartre and that lot got pissed off with him, he stood off from the war, he wouldn?t oppose it.
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- Holman accepted the challenge while Norton ‘piked out’; nevertheless Holman won Cootamundra against a strong candidate.
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- If they didn?t go ahead, it would look like they had piked , backed down.