Definition of spike

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Spike (v. t.) To fix on a spike.

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Spicose :: Spicose (a.) Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes..
Spelk :: Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
Nail :: Nail (n.) To spike, as a cannon..
Set :: Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
Spikefish :: Spikefish (n.) See Sailfish (a.
Spiked :: Spiked (a.) Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes..
Spicula :: Spicula (n.) A little spike; a spikelet.
Mullein :: Mullein (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus..
Hersillon :: Hersillon (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable..
Spiked :: Spiked (imp. & p. p.) of Spik.
Spikelet :: Spikelet (n.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass..
Lizard''s Tail :: Lizard's tail () A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name..
Spiky :: Spiky (a.) Like a spike; spikelike.
Spadix :: Spadix (n.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe..
Sciuroid :: Sciuroid (a.) Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley..
Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..
Hyacinth :: Hyacinth (n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety..
Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The hooded merganser.
Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.).
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..
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