Spike

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