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▪ I. sea-pike1 [pike n.4] One of various fishes, as (a) a gar-fish, esp. Belone vulgaris; (b) any fish of the family Sphyrænidæ, esp. the genus Sphyræna; (c) the hake, Merlucius vulgaris; (d) a fish of the family Centropomidæ, of tropical America, esp. Centropomus undecimalis (Cent. Dict. 1891).
1601Holland Pliny xxxii. ii. II. 427 The sea pike Lupus. 1611Cotgr., Peis escome, the sea Pike, or Spit-fish. 1668Charleton Onomast. 136 Sphyræna..Lucius Marinus, the Sea-Pike, or Spitt-Fish. 1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 274 The common sea pike, or sea needle, sometimes grows to the length of three feet, or more. 1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 294 Sphyræna, the Sea Pike, which has been confounded with the Esox or True Pike. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3), Bill-fish, (Belone truncata) a small sea-fish... Also called Sea-pike. 1880–84F. Day Brit. Fishes I. 301 Merluccius vulgaris... The hake,..or sea-pike. 1898Morris Austral Engl., Sea-Pike, a fish of New South Wales, Lanioperca mordax Günth., of the family Sphyrænidæ. ▪ II. sea-pike2 [pike n.5] A trident.
1870Bryant Iliad xv. II. 109 He bore A sea-pike two and twenty cubits long. |