Definition of "pikestaff" []

• The shaft of a pike. (noun)
• A walking stick tipped with a metal spike. (noun)

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• "(for I make little doubt I am descended from Brian Boroo too) when will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff a pikestaff? — that is the very best use you can make of the latter."
• "Brian Boroo too) when will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff a pikestaff?"
• "Another one is of a man with a pikestaff and a big plumed hat; probably painted around 1500–1520 and fairly certainly not religious."