1. Noun
A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
2. Noun
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
3. Noun
An ear of corn or grain.
4. Noun
A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
5. Verb
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
6. Verb
To set or furnish with spikes.
7. Verb
To fix on a spike.
8. Verb
To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
9. Noun
Spike lavender. See Lavender.
10. Noun
(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
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11. Noun
fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
Vocabulary classified under Biology
12. Noun
a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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