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Meaning of 'Piked'
alanesq:
The quote from from Ascham is
Take your bow in to the feeld, mote in hym, finke hym
wyth deade heauye fhaftes, looke where he commethe
mooft,prouyde for that place betymes,lefte it pincrieand
fo freate; when you hauethus fhot in him,andperceyued
good fhootynge woode in hym, you muft haue hym
agayne to a good cunnynge, and truftie woorkeman,
whyche fhall cut hym morter, and pike hym and dreffe
hym fytte
There seems to be three separate operations mentioned here:
Cut it shorter
pike
and dress
SimonUK:
Just to let you know I still exist... just very busy. Hi everyone.
medicinewheel:
gentlemen! - the english/german on line dictionaries all say a verb 'to pike' doesn't exist, but along the many meanings of pike as a noun you'll find the word 'Spitze', which is something that tapers or narrows towards it's tip, like the churchtower (Turmspitze), the spear (Speerspitze), or the arrowhead (Pfeilspitze).
none of the translations resembles 'kürzen', which is shortening!
frank
Papa Matt:
Alanesq~
What's the translation of that passage in red? It looks cool.
~~Matt
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: bow-toxo on July 15, 2008, 11:28:08 pm ---Whipping in this case means thinning the tips To increase the fiexiabiility and to reduce stress on the handgrip area. Mary Rose bows were thinned in the last foot or so. This thinning was thought to increase cast
--- End quote ---
The act of cutting shorter is not expressed as a verb but rather a sentence (saying just about that) and mentioned before piking. Pikes, as in the staff weapon, were tapered at the tips and for my money piking was the process of thinning the tips not whipping. I think whipping could well mean something else. It is important to keep an open mind and no state things that are clearly not definitive as such. We may well never fully know what whipping described but can only state our case based on experience and evidence.
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