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(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

(n.) An ear of corn or grain.

(4):

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

(5):

(n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.

(6):

(n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

(7):

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

(8):

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

(9):

(n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Spike'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/spike.html. 1828.
 
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