pike perch

pike perch
    n 1: any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family [syn:
         {pike-perch}, {pike perch}]
    

Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig
   a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus
   woodpecker (see {Pie} magpie), and E. spike. Cf. {Pick}, n. &
   v., {Peak}, {Pique}.]
   1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long
      wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is
      now superseded by the bayonet.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a
      shield or target. --Beau. & Fl.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond.
      [1913 Webster]

   5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.]
      [1913 Webster]

   6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
      [1913 Webster]

   7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens.
      [1913 Webster]

   8. (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ({Esox
      lucius}), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a
      food fish; -- called also {pickerel}, {gedd}, {luce}, and
      {jack}.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and
         yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the
         wall-eye. See {Wall-eye}.
         [1913 Webster]

   {Gar pike}. See under {Gar}.

   {Pike perch} (Zool.), any fresh-water fish of the genus
      {Stizostedion} (formerly {Lucioperca}). See {Wall-eye},
      and {Sauger}.

   {Pike pole}, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in
      directing floating logs.

   {Pike whale} (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic
      ({Bal[ae]noptera rostrata}), having an elongated snout; --
      called also {piked whale}.

   {Sand pike} (Zool.), the lizard fish.

   {Sea pike} (Zool.), the garfish
      (a) .
          [1913 Webster]
    

Wall-eye \Wall"-eye`\, n. [See {Wall-eyed}.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or
      whitish color; -- said usually of horses. --Booth.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the
         crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." But glaucoma
         is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is
         wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural
         blemish. --Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett
         states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white
         of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
         [1913 Webster]

   2. (Zool.)
      (a) An American fresh-water food fish ({Stizostedion
          vitreum}) having large and prominent eyes; -- called
          also {glasseye}, {pike perch}, {yellow pike}, and
          {wall-eyed perch}.
      (b) A California surf fish ({Holconotus argenteus}).
      (c) The alewife; -- called also {wall-eyed herring}.
          [1913 Webster]