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What is a sarissa?

What is a sarissa? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.
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They were armed with the sarissa, a long spear but at 13 feet actually shorter than the hasta used by Greek hoplites, which was over 16 feet long.
Once inside the sarissa, the attackers stood a better chance of cracking the phalanx.
The front ranks now used a shortened, 9-foot spear, while the fifth rank used an immense 21-footer, with the length of the sarissa of intervening ranks of corresponding lengths.

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