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In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.
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The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument.
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A sort of very large nail.
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A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
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The trap was lined with spikes.
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Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
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An ear of corn or grain.
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A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
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(chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
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A sharp peak in a graph.
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A surge in power or in the price of a commodity etc.
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The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
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A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
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An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
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An adolescent male deer.
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The casual ward of a workhouse.
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Spike lavender.
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oil of spike
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To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
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to spike down planks
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To set or furnish with spikes.
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To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
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To fix on a spike.
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To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
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To increase sharply.
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Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads.
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To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
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She spiked my lemonade with vodka!
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To add a small amount of one substance to another.
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The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.
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To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
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To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
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(football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
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A device consisting of a portable bed of nails used by police and armed forces to puncture car tires.
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A pair of athletic shoes equipped with spikes on the sole and heel for better traction.
Examples of spikes in a Sentence
He clamped the metal spikes to his feet.
The stone cliffs that walled the road on the opposite side wept icicles from every crevice, covering the surface in massive clusters of crystal spikes that sparkled in the dazzling sunlight.
After the war he engaged in the manufacture of gold and silver ware, and became a pioneer in the production in America of copper plating and copper spikes for ships.
The female flowers are solitary or few in number, and borne on Short terminal spikes of the present season's growth.
They are bold, handsome plants, with stately spikes, 2 to 3 ft.
Pseudopus, the glass-snake, from Morocco and the Balkan peninsula to Burma and Fokien; also in the U.S.A., with the limbs reduced to a pair of tiny spikes near the vent, and a lateral fold along the snake-like body.
C. pulla, 6 in., purplish, nodding, on slender erect stalks; C. turbinata, 9 in., purple, broad-belled; C. carpatica, i ft., blue, bfoad-belled; C. nobilis, 12 ft., long-belled, whitish or tinted with chocolate; C. persicifolia, 2 ft., a fine border plant, single or double, white or purple, blooming in July; and C. pyramidalis, 6 ft., blue or white, in tall branching spikes, are good and diverse.
C. majalis, the lily of the valley, a well-known sweet-scented favourite spring flower, growing freely in rich garden soil; its spikes, 6 to 9 in.
Lindheimeri, 3 to 5 ft., is much branched, with elegant white and red flowers of the onagraceous type, in long slender ramose spikes during the late summer and autumn months.
The flowers are solitary in the leaf-axils as in pimpernel, money-wort, &c., or umbelled as in primrose, where the umbel is sessile, and cowslip, where it is stalked, or in racemes or spikes as in species of Lysimachia.
Here some rebels of 1798 were executed and their heads exhibited on the spikes of the castle gate.
Gutta-percha (getah percha in the vernacular), camphor, cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, gambir and betel, or areca-nuts, are all produced in the island; most of the tropical fruits flourish, including the much-admired but, to the uninitiated, most evil-smelling durian, a large fruit with an exceedingly strong outer covering composed of stout pyramidal spikes, which grows upon the branches of a tall tree and occasionally in falling inflicts considerable injuries upon passers-by.
Willemoes Suhm, which makes up for its vanished eyes by its extraordinarily elongate and dentated claws; in Psalidopus huxleyi, Wood-Mason and Alcock (1892), bristling with spikes from head to tail; in the Nematocarcinidae, with their long thread-like limbs and longer antennae; in species of Aristaeopsis reported by Chun from deep water off the east coast of Africa, bright red prawns nearly a foot long, with antennae about five times the length of the body.
Conversely, French wheat taken to the West Indies produced only barren spikes, while native wheat by its side yielded an enormous harvest.
The leafy stem ends in spikes of small yellow flowers.
Although a few living species have the antlers in the form of simple spikes in the adult male, in the great majority of species they are more or less branched; while in some, like the elk and fallow-deer, they expand into broad palmated plates, with tines, or snags, on one or both margins.
Short spikes may fall from the culm as a whole; or the axis of a spike or raceme is jointed so that one spikelet falls with each joint as in many Andropogoneae and Hordeae.
Rye is a tall-growing annual grass, with fibrous roots, flat, narrow, ribbon-like bluish-green leaves, and erect or decurved cylindrical slender spikes like those of barley.
The flowers are shortlystalked, the lower ones growing in the fork of the branches, the upper ones sessile in one-sided leafy spikes which are rolled back at the top before flowering, the leaves becoming smaller upwards and taking the place of bracts.
The so-called catkins of the birch are, in reality, spikes of contracted dichasial cymes.
The fructification consists of long, lax spikes, with whorled sporophylls; indications of megaspores have been detected in the sporangia.
The French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken!
Lindheimeri is a graceful perennial, 3 to 4 1/2 feet high, flowering in summer and autumn, on long, slender spikes bearing numerous white and rose flowers.
The best part about spikes is that they can be added to everyday clothing items such as belts, headbands, collars, and shoes.
The plain on the right of the marshes was prepared with pits and spikes.
Pretty composites with the flower-heads collected into spikes.
P. imbricata, 5 to 6 ft., has pale purple flowers in closely imbricated spikes.
It has narrow, shortstalked leaves and inconspicuous, apetalous, unisexual flowers borne in short spikes.
The male and female inflorescences have the form of simple or paniculate spikes.
Stomping harder, he tried to plant the spikes, as if gravity would bow to so meager a hold against its forces.
The spikes can be glued onto window cills, pipes or ledges using a building grade silicone adhesive.
On a lilac bush, the flowers appear in spikes.
This allows it to charge at a higher rate without gassing or damaging vehicle electrics with spikes of power.
The Queen had their heads impaled on spikes on the city walls of York.
Narrow pale green/blue stiff leaves and produces a pale purple/pink inflorescence on terminal spikes, which can be used as cut flower.
The ninja of Japan wore these brass knuckles, which were made of a metal plate adorned with four spikes extending from the palm.
In addition to the dresses, on their heads the women wear either caps, which have short spikes on them or large pom-poms.
Purple loosestrife, which bears purple loosestrife, which bears purple flower spikes between June and August.
A heavy wooden sledge fitted with sharp, cutting, spikes was used to separate the precious wheat from the chaff.
The pull-out force required to remove the screw spikes is similar for both the recycled plastic and softwood sleepers.
Christmas tree spikes, sharp as knives, the presents below too good to be true; decorated snowflakes.
In summer they produce tall dense spikes of many small pea shaped flowers.
In addition Liatris spicata which has purple spikes will push through the foliage.
Because almost all reflecting telescopes produce diffraction spikes, many people are used to seeing them and don't consider them an aberration.
Beneath the flower spikes are numerous dark green leaves, tapered at both ends.
Protection diodes may now be included to protect the transistors from voltage spikes in this mode.
Fragrant, orange flowers with prominent dark stamens are borne in dense terminal spikes up to 25cm long.
Hedychium coccineum ' Tara ' has large spikes of dense, fragrant, orange trumpet-shaped flowers with prominent darker orange stamens.
They were being stunned with electric tongs which had spikes in them.
Traitor's gate is a river entrance, where the heads of traitor's gate is a river entrance, where the heads of traitors were put on spikes.