SPIKE

vt to fix on a spike.

2. spike ·noun an ear of corn or grain.

3. spike ·vt to set or furnish with spikes.

4. spike ·noun anything resembling such a nail in shape.

5. spike ·noun spike lavender. ·see lavender.

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

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

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

9. spike ·noun a kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.