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Spike   /spaɪk/   Listen
noun
Spike  n.  
1.
A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
2.
Anything resembling such a nail in shape. "He wears on his head the corona radiata...; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun."
3.
An ear of corn or grain.
4.
(Bot.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
Spike grass (Bot.), either of two tall perennial American grasses (Uniola paniculata, and Uniola latifolia) having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets.
Spike rush. (Bot.) See under Rush.
Spike shell (Zool.), any pteropod of the genus Styliola having a slender conical shell.
Spike team, three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span. (U.S.)


Spike  n.  (Bot.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.
Oil of spike (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles.


verb
Spike  v. t.  (past & past part. spiked; pres. part. spiking)  
1.
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
2.
To set or furnish with spikes.
3.
To fix on a spike. (R.)
4.
To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.





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"Spike" Quotes from Famous Books



... convince Caroline that she is mistaken and that you are indifferent to Madame de Fischtaminel, would cost you dear. This is a blunder that no sensible man commits; he would lose his power and spike his ...
— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part First • Honore de Balzac
... on the long spike which held the horseshoe over the door a pail of water so delicately hung that whoever first entered there must receive its contents in one fell unmitigated deluge upon ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... Jensen referred to were in a pasture, tethered to an iron spike driven in the ground, with a rope giving them a range of ...
— A Danish Parsonage • John Fulford Vicary
... weighing about 90 pound was brought alongside the Ship for Sale, but those who brought it would not part with it for anything we could offer them but a Carpenter's broad axe, and this was what we could not part with; they carried it away. Thus we see those very People who but 2 years ago prefer'd a spike Nail to an Axe of any Sort, have so far learnt the use of them that they will not part with a Pig of 10 or 12 pounds weight for anything under a Hatchet, and even those of an inferior or small sort are of no great esteem with them, and small Nails such as 10 penny, ...
— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook
... a step closer to the track boss and her voice hardened. "If these spikes were forced out by the impact of the engine, we ought to find torn spike holes inclining toward the end of the ...
— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post


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