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

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

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)..

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

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

Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.

Gad :: Gad (n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

Xyris :: Xyris (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States..

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

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..

Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..

Spick :: Spick (n.) A spike or nail.

Pudu :: Pudu (n.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long..

Water Willow :: Water willow () An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers..

Stabbingly :: Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.

Spiked :: Spiked (imp. & p. p.) of Spik.

Trifolium :: Trifolium (n.) A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover..

Spadix :: Spadix (n.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe..

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..

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

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