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SPIKE, n. [L. L. spica, and ear of corn. It signifies a shoot or point.]

1. A large uail; always in American applied to a nail or pin of metal. A similar thing made of word is called a peg or pin. In England, it is sometimes used for a sharp point of wood.

2. An ear of corn or grain. It is applied to the heads of wheat, rye and barley; and is particularly applicable to the ears of maiz.

3. A shoot.

4. [L. spica.] In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which sessile flowers are alternate on a common simple peduncle, as in wheat and rye, lavender, &c.

SPIKE, n. A smaller species of lavender.

SPIKE, v.t.

1. To fasten with spikes or long and large nails; as, to spike down the planks of a floor or bridge.

2. To set with spikes. A youth leaping over the spiked pales-was caught by the spikes. [Unusual.]

3. To stop the vent with spikes; as, to spike cannon.


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SPIKE, n. [L. L. spica, and ear of corn. It signifies a shoot or point.]

1. A large uail; always in American applied to a nail or pin of metal. A similar thing made of word is called a peg or pin. In England, it is sometimes used for a sharp point of wood.

2. An ear of corn or grain. It is applied to the heads of wheat, rye and barley; and is particularly applicable to the ears of maiz.

3. A shoot.

4. [L. spica.] In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which sessile flowers are alternate on a common simple peduncle, as in wheat and rye, lavender, &c.

SPIKE, n. A smaller species of lavender.

SPIKE, v.t.

1. To fasten with spikes or long and large nails; as, to spike down the planks of a floor or bridge.

2. To set with spikes. A youth leaping over the spiked pales-was caught by the spikes. [Unusual.]

3. To stop the vent with spikes; as, to spike cannon.

SPIKE, n.2

A species of lavender. – Hill.


SPIKE, v.t.

  1. To fasten with spikes or long and large nails; as, to spike down the planks of a floor or bridge.
  2. To set with spikes. A youth leaping over the spiked pales … was caught by the spikes. [ Unusual.] – Wiseman.
  3. To stop the vent with spikes; as, to spike cannon.

SPIKE, n.1 [W. yspig, supra; D. spyk, spyker; G. speiche; Dan. spiger, Sw. spik, a nail; L. spica, an ear of corn. It signifies a shoot or point. Class Bg. See Pike.]

  1. A large nail; always in America applied to a nail or pin of metal. A similar thing made of wood is called a peg or pin. In England, it is sometimes used for a sharp point of wood.
  2. An ear of corn or grain. It is applied to the ears of maiz.
  3. A shoot. – Addison.
  4. [L. spica.] In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which sessile flowers are alternate on a common simple peduncle, as lavender, &c. – Martyn.

Spike
  1. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
  2. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails] as, to spike down planks.
  3. Spike lavender. See Lavender.

    Oil of spike (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles.

  4. Anything resembling such a nail in shape.

    He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison.

  5. To set or furnish with spikes.
  6. An ear of corn or grain.
  7. To fix on a spike.

    [R.] Young.
  8. A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.

    Spike grass (Bot.), either of two tall perennial American grasses (Uniola paniculata, and U. latifolia) having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets. -- Spike rush. (Bot.) See under Rush. -- Spike shell (Zoöl.), any pteropod of the genus Styliola having a slender conical shell. -- Spike team, three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span. [U.S.]

  9. To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
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Spike

SPIKE, noun [Latin Latin spica, and ear of corn. It signifies a shoot or point.]

1. A large uail; always in American applied to a nail or pin of metal. A similar thing made of word is called a peg or pin. In England, it is sometimes used for a sharp point of wood.

2. An ear of corn or grain. It is applied to the heads of wheat, rye and barley; and is particularly applicable to the ears of maiz.

3. A shoot.

4. [Latin spica.] In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which sessile flowers are alternate on a common simple peduncle, as in wheat and rye, lavender, etc.

SPIKE, noun A smaller species of lavender.

SPIKE, verb transitive

1. To fasten with spikes or long and large nails; as, to spike down the planks of a floor or bridge.

2. To set with spikes. A youth leaping over the spiked pales-was caught by the spikes. [Unusual.]

3. To stop the vent with spikes; as, to spike cannon.

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