Definition of spike

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Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward..

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Set :: Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
Spike :: Spike (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
Valerianaceous :: Valerianaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaccae) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard..
Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..
Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.).
Ear :: Ear (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels..
Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb..
Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Adder's-tongue :: Adder's-tongue (n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue..
Handspike :: Handspike (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes..
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..
Spike :: Spike (n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
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..
Twilly :: Twilly (n.) A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy..
Terminal :: Terminal (n.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike..
Spiked :: Spiked (a.) Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes..
Jointweed :: "Jointweed (n.) A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers..
Water Willow :: Water willow () An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers..
Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).
Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..
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