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

Spikefish :: Spikefish (n.) See Sailfish (a.

Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).

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..

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

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..

Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India..

Spike :: Spike (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.

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

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..

Spiky :: Spiky (a.) Like a spike; spikelike.

Spignet :: Spignet (n.) An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

Set :: Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.

Locusta :: Locusta (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.

Hersillon :: Hersillon (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable..

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

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

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.

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

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