1. spire - Noun
2. spire - Verb
To breathe.
A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat do we plant when we plant a tree? A thousand things that we daily see, We plant the spire that out-towers the crag, We plant the staff for our country's flag; We plant the shade from the hot sun free, We plant all these when we plant the tree. Henry Abbey
They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception. Anthony Burgess
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?" "Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain." "Done that once today," Jason said. Rick Riordan
Above the 71st floor, the stories of the building are designed mostly for exterior appearance, functioning mainly as landings for the stairway to the spire. Source: Internet
According to the 2005 "Works Report" of the project's official website, drawings signed by Gaudí and recently found in the Municipal Archives, indicate that the spire of the Virgin was in fact intended by Gaudí to be shorter than those of the evangelists. Source: Internet