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Noun pike has 5 senses

expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway - a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
--₁ is a kind of highway, main road
--₁ has parts: carriageway
--₁ has particulars: autobahn; autostrada; turnpike
pike - highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
--₂ is a kind of freshwater fish
--₂ is a part of pike
--₂ has particulars: muskellunge; pickerel
pike - a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
--₃ is a kind of point
pike - medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
--₄ is a kind of weapon, arm, weapon system
--₄ has parts: pikestaff; spearhead, spearpoint, spear-point
--₄ has particulars: halberd; partisan, partizan; vouge
pike - any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
--₅ is a kind of percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
--₅ is a member of Esox, genus Esox
--₅ has part: pike
--₅ has particulars:
northern pike, Esox lucius; muskellunge, Esox masquinongy; pickerel