spike

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1. spike - Noun

2. spike - Verb

3. Spike - Proper noun

Meaning

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

Spike lavender. See Lavender.

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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones. Xander Berkeley

Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace? Katie Hopkins

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. Stephen King

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina. Bob Ney

Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious. Laz Alonso

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear. Steve Bartlett

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