Spike

·vt To fix on a spike.

II. Spike ·noun An ear of corn or grain.

III. Spike ·vt To set or furnish with spikes.

IV. Spike ·noun Anything resembling such a nail in shape.

V. Spike ·noun Spike lavender. ·see Lavender.

VI. Spike ·vt To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.

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

VIII. Spike ·noun A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

IX. Spike ·noun A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.