(n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
(n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
(n.) An ear of corn or grain.
(n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
(n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.
(v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
(v. t.) To fix on a spike.
(v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes.
(v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.