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Meaning of 'Piked'

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ratty:
i shoot my 133# bow flat at targets

although it is not as comfortable as shooting into the air . it is no harder really. except aiming which is why i shoot instinctivley.

i wouldn't say i could shoot a much heavier bow into the air, and not be able to shoot the same bow flat.

ratty:
i think we may be drifting a little off topic O:)

bow-toxo:

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Right. Sorry.

triton:
fashionable shoes of the period were referred to as "piked", having long tapered toes.
pike are long and tapered.
a pike was used in medieval warfare.  looooong pole with an iron s'pike atop.

good old anglo saxon was rather more descriptive than norman and looked to nature for similarities. 
the bow is refered to in old texts as "him" and he stands like a man.  When he "bows" his "back" is outward and his "belly" inward. 
why then would pike mean to shorten when they already had a perfectly good word for reducing the length of something: Shorten

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