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单词 push of pike
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push of pike
push of pike n. (and variants) fighting at close quarters, close combat. Also figurative. Now archaic.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] > manner of fighting > fighting at close quarters
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1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 11v For push of Pike, for Holbers stroke.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 167 Nor so easie to come to the push of the pike, as to pen out a Lawing plea.
1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers iii. i. sig. F2 And then for push o' Pike, practise to poke a Ruffe.
1699 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1751) 4th Ser. III. 157 By that Time the Blue Regiment was got within Push of Pike.
1707 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. vii. 10 But when at Push a Pike we play With Beauty, who shall win the Day?
1739 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. (new ed.) III. vii. 153/2 Who..had the courage to stand 'till they came to push of pike and bayonet.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. xii. 215 The French battalions never waiting to exchange push of pike or bayonet with ours.
1899 Dict. National Biogr. LVIII. 232/1 The battle began about 2 p.m. with a desperate struggle at push of pike.
1938 Jrnl. Amer. Mil. Hist. Found. 2 163 The fight was opened with missiles; then came the push of pike.
1991 F. J. Baumgartner From Spear to Flintlock xiii. 181 They barely came to ‘push of pike’ before pulling back.
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