Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. 2. (n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape. 3. (n.) An ear of corn or grain. 4. (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. 5. (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks. 6. (v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes. 7. (v. t.) To fix on a spike. 8. (v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it. 9. (n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.

Multi-Version Concordance Spike (1 Occurrence) Job 41:2 Wilt thou put a rush-rope into his nose, and pierce his jaw with a spike? (DBY)