A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
The shaft of a wagon.
A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
To fit (a pen) with a nib.
A sharp or tapering point.
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.
to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
To furnish with a spire.
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.