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A.-S. pic, a point, top, head, j!?5«(? (Bosworth); not authorised, 

 (Skeat). 



"Wei. pig, point, pike, nib, bill, peat, pip. Bret, pik, a pike, 

 pickaxe. Gael, pic, warpike, pickaxe. Ir. astal, astas, pike. 



"P/X-, alias j^ffX-, bacillus, fustis ; Kni. pile ; A.-S. cint con- 

 verso, lat, fusteni appellant; Galli. baton. Antiques Latii in- 

 colas fusteni lacus noncupasse, indicium est diminutivum haculus. 

 Gr. PaKTrjpiov, ejusdem familise esse videtur. Isl. piacTc, fre- 

 quenter pungo." Ihre. 



From PaKTrjptov conies the bacterium of pathologists of the 

 present day, a minutely microscopic rod-like body, causing or 

 accompanying certain diseases. 



Lat. piluin, fustis, liasta, javelin, staff, spear; mows acutus, 

 pointed hill ; lancea, lance ; spica, a spike. 



It., Sp., and Port, pico ; Fr. ^jic, pike, pointed mountain top ; 

 pique, pike, weapon. 



" Plhe, the top of a hill." Halliwell. 



'■'• FiTze, the top or apex of a conical hill or eminence, such as 

 Pontop Pike, Durham, Glanton Pike, I^orthumberland. Peac, 

 Saxon." Brockett. 



" Peac-land, land about the Peak, Derbyshire." Bosworth. 



Examples : — 



Dufton Pike — near the village of Dufton. q.v. 



Murton Pike — Moortown Pike. Pikelaw — pointed hill. 



Pikestone — stony hill of peaked form. Three Pikes. 



Pive Pikes are near Paw Law Pike, ' ' a south-eastern boundary 

 point of the parish" of Stanhope. Egglestone. 



Coldpike or Colepike, Pontop Pike (pike on the top), Durham. 



Glanton Pike, Northumberland. Langdale Pikes, Westmorl. 



Pic du Midi, Switzerland. Pico de Tenerife. 



Hay, in this northern district, after being cut and somewhat 

 dried, is collected into small heaps called cocks or footcocks, and 

 when these are sufficiently dry they are gathered into large 

 heaps, circular and pointed at the top like small stacks. Hay is 

 then said to be ' in pike ;' these are afterwards made into stacks, 

 which are thatched with straw. 



Pike is originally Celtic, and has been adopted into the 



