spike
n. கதிர்முனை, கூர்முனை, முனைக்கதிர், இரும்புமுள், தண்டவாள ஆணி, தடித்த பெரிய ஆணி, நறுமணப் பூஞ்செடி வகை, (தாவ.) குலைக்கதிர், கதிர்க்குலையுடன் கூடிய சினை, கதிரிளங்கொப்பு, (பே-வ) மீவினை ஆங்கிலத் திருச்சபை மரபினர், (வினை.) தடித்த பெரிய இருப்பாணி கொண்டு இறுக்கு, இரும்புமுட்கள் அமைத்துக் கொடு, குழாய்ப்பொருத்து முனையினால் இணை, கூர்முனையினாற் குத்து, குத்தித் துளை, பீரங்கி வாயினை முளைகொண்டு அடைத்து மூடு, பயனற்றதாகச் செய்.
Spike, n. Etym: [Akin to LG. spiker, spieker, a large nail, D. spijker, Sw. spik, Dan. spiger, Icel. spik; all perhaps from L. spica a point, an ear of grain; but in the sense of nail more likely akin to E. spoke of a wheel. Cf. Spine.] 1. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. 2. Anything resembling such a nail in shape. He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison. 3. An ear of corn or grain. 4. (Bot.) Defn: A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. Spike grass (Bot.), either of two tall perennial American grasses (Uniola paniculata, and U. latifolia) having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets. -- Spike rush. (Bot.) See under Rush. -- Spike shell (Zoöl.), any pteropod of the genus Styliola having a slender conical shell. -- Spike team, three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span. [U.S.] Spike, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spiked; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiking.] 1. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks. 2. To set or furnish with spikes. 3. To fix on a spike. [R.] Young. 4. To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it. Spike, n. Etym: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.] (Bot.) Defn: Spike lavender. See Lavender. Oil of spike (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles.