spike
A sort of very large nail.
Other meanings
A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
“The trap was lined with spikes.”
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
A kind of
- nail
Related words
- aerospike
- antispike
- backspike
- chickenspike
- despike
- dogspike
- interspike
- intraspike
- microspike
- minispike
- multispike
- nanospike
Word history
From Old Norse "spík" (spike, sprig).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “spike” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.