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- noun Plural form of
pikestaff .
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Examples
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Mahouts with pikestaffs lead the way, and a myriad of hangers-on swarm in the train of the visitors.
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888
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There is no merry shouting of titles, no gay carnival dress, no glittering pageant now, as, on the morning of Sunday, the ninth of November, 1494, the young cardinal and his cousin Giulio pass anxiously down the grand staircase of the Medici palace to where in the great entrance-hall the pikestaffs and arquebuses of the Swiss guard ring on the marble floor.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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For 700 years, the rich, ruthless and noble Percys of Northumberland have been turning up in all the most interesting places - in jails, on the end of pikestaffs, across fields of battle and in the pages of Proust.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph William Langley 2011
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For 700 years, the rich, ruthless and noble Percys of Northumberland have been turning up in all the most interesting places - in jails, on the end of pikestaffs, across fields of battle and in the pages of Proust.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph William Langley 2011
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For 700 years, the rich, ruthless and noble Percys of Northumberland have been turning up in all the most interesting places - in jails, on the end of pikestaffs, across fields of battle and in the pages of Proust.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph William Langley 2011
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