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Water Torch :: Water torch () The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil..

Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

Glumelle :: Glumelle (n.) One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

Pepper :: Pepper (n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth..

Nard :: Nard (n.) An ointment prepared partly from this plant. See Spikenard.

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target..

Unspike :: Unspike (v. t.) To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon..

Flail :: Flail (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded..

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb..

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes.

Tamarisk :: Tamarisk (n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna..

Herse :: Herse (n.) A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy..

Spur :: Spur (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber..

Jager :: "Jager (n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)..

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..

Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping..

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks..

Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..

Colicroot :: Colicroot (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root..

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