A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
An adolescent male deer.
A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
Spike lavender.
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
A sort of very large nail.
An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
Synonym of endpin.
A sharp peak in a graph.
A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
The casual ward of a workhouse.
An ear of corn or grain.
To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
To set or furnish with spikes.
To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
To inject a drug with a syringe.
To fix on a spike.
To increase sharply.
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
The fusee of a watch.
A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
A sleep spindle.
A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
A muscle spindle.
A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
To make into a long tapered shape.
To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
To take on a long tapered shape.