pikelike

adj — 2 senses

adj

Etymology From pike + -like.

Resembling or characteristic of a pike (fish).

Having the shape of a pike (weapon).

Before long, however, these pike-like devices were mostly superseded by spring-operated guns of various types. Most of them shot spinning disks, crosses, or small boomerangs of thin steel.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 43:

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