pass the pikes

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pass the pikes (third-person singular simple present passes the pikes, present participle passing the pikes, simple past and past participle passed the pikes)

  1. (archaic) To endure a difficult or unpleasant ordeal.
    • 1662, Jacques Olivier, translated by Richard Banke, A Discourse of Women, Shewing Their Imperfections Alphabetically, →OCLC, page 9:
      This I shall leave to the judgement of those, who have passed the Pikes, and know better then my self to speak the truth of it,

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