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plural pikestaffs or pikestaves
The wooden shaft of a pike. examples
A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping. quotations examples
So soon as he got into the grave, he struck his pikestaff forcibly down; it encountered resistance in its descent
1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown