A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.
A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
A spiral.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
A sharp or tapering point.
to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
To furnish with a spire.
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.