Difference between Pike and Spear

What is the difference between Pike and Spear?

Pike as a noun is a very long thrusting spear used two-handed by infantry both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a counter-measure against cavalry assaults. the pike is not intended to be thrown. while Spear as a noun is a long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.

Pike

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A very long thrusting spear used two-handed by infantry both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a counter-measure against cavalry assaults. The pike is not intended to be thrown. Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius. A turnpike.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To attack, prod, or injure someone with a pike. To quit or back out of a promise.

Spear

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.

Example sentence: Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

We hope you now know whether to use Pike or Spear in your sentence.

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