Definition
• | A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. |
• | Anything resembling such a nail in shape. |
• | An ear of corn or grain. |
• | A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. |
• | To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks. |
• | To set or furnish with spikes. |
• | To fix on a spike. |
• | To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it. |
• | Spike lavender. See Lavender. |