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We think the answer is "PIKE" which means:
- noun
- • A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- • Highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- • A sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
- • Medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- • Any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere verb
- • To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
- • To assume a pike position.
- • To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
- • Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
- • To equip with a turnpike.
- • (thieves' cant) to depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
An example sentence would be:
- • "He caught a large pike while fishing in the lake."
- • "She went hiking in the mountains and saw a pike swimming in a stream."
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