pike-like

(ZYLOSURUS, sp.) or alligator-pike, which shoots from the water and skips along by striking and flipping the surface with its tail, while keeping the rest of its pike-like body rigid and almost perpendicular.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

As The Chairman sat down, B of E (or Finance), a stocky, middle-aged man of medium height whose small-lensed spectacles and jutting jaw gave him a sort of aggressively fishy, pike-like look, stood up.

Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984

Yet the master has not lost his special touch; rarely but unforgettably the surface of this bland narrative is rippled by some dark pike-like intimation of another life in the depths; a parallel, unspoken, and possibly unspeakable monologue.

Bright Small Boy O'Brien, Conor Cruise 1968

The great judge's head -- seamed and vertical forehead, iron mouth, and pike-like under-jaw, all set on that thick neck rising out of the white flannelled collar -- was thrown against the puckered green silk of the organ-front as it might have been a cameo of Titus.

Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

Slender pike-like stumps of fire-devastated firs rose here and there, black and grim skeletons of trees.

Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

The term "skipper," purely local, is intended to distinguish that singular fish, of the "long tom" (ZYLOSURUS, sp.) or alligator-pike, which shoots from the water and skips along by striking and flipping the surface with its tail, while keeping the rest of its pike-like body rigid and almost perpendicular.

Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

On the mantelpiece reposed a ball of string, a dogskin glove, a matchbox, and a photograph of an elderly gentleman, whose pike-like aspect sufficiently proclaimed his relationship.

Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887

The likeness between her and the pike-like gentleman grew more startling every moment.

Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887

There's a hole for you to fasten the line to, and a big pike-like fish might run at it as it is drawn through the water. "

Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870