Crossword-Solution: SPIKE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spike | n. | A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. |
| Spike | n. | Anything resembling such a nail in shape. |
| Spike | n. | An ear of corn or grain. |
| Spike | n. | A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. |
| Spike | v. t. | To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks. |
| Spike | v. t. | To set or furnish with spikes. |
| Spike | v. t. | To fix on a spike. |
| Spike | v. t. | To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it. |
| Spike | n. | Spike lavender. See Lavender. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPIKE | anagram | KEPIS, PIKES, PISEK, SEPIK |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SPIKE (5)
Due to Morgan's local popularity, and the fact that the state was so small that everyone knew everyone else's business, and that the incumbent was going to jail, and that the elections were less than two weeks away, there was barely a spike in the projections.
The earth round the spike had been left on the table, and a second sample was loosened and fell in the bedroom.
Snider again held aloft another trophy of the search—a metal spike and some tarnished and corroded metal ornaments.
Henry smiled vacuously and said, "It was introduced yesterday." "I never saw it." "It was in the analyst's report for you to see." "Now you tell me." "You could have read it anytime." "When? Every time there was a break, you shooed me out of here." "We needed this room to confer." Anuse broke in to hammer home another spike of explanation in the maze of questionable activity engaged in by the administration.
This very dapper but dwarfish figure, with the spike of black beard carried insolently forward, the clever unrestful eyes, the neat but very nervous fingers, could be none other than the man just described to him: Isidore Smythe, who made dolls out of banana skins and match-boxes; Isidore Smythe, who made millions out of undrinking butlers and unflirting housemaids of metal.
Quotes with SPIKE (3)
Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?
If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.
Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have you been in a bookstore lately? Have you seen what these authors are doing, the mountainous piles of the flakes of themselves they're leaving behind, like the neatly labeled jars of shit, piss, and toenail clippings one of John Bar…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 116 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).