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.

spike team
A waggon drawn by three horses, or by two oxen and a horse, the latter leading the oxen or span of h...

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marline-spike
An iron pin tapering to a point, and principally used to separate the strands of a rope, in order to...

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spike-nails
See deck-nails. ...

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spike-plank
(Speak-plank?) In Polar voyages, a platform projecting across the vessel before the mizen-mast, to e...

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spike-tackle and cant-falls
The ropes and blocks used in whalers to sling their prey to the side of the ship. ...

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spike-tub
A vessel in which the fat of bears, seals, and minor quarry is set aside till a "making off" gives a...

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marline-spike hitch
A peculiar hitch in marling, made by laying the marline-spike upon the seizing stuff, and then bring...

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