Word Meanings - UNSPIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.
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- CANNON BONE
See BONE - CANNONADE
1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle - CANNONEER; CANNONIER
A man who manages, or fires, cannon. - SPIKE
A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. Spike grass , either of two tall perennial American grasses having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets. -- Spike rush. See under Rush. -- Spike - REMOVER
One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon. - CANNONED
Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold. - SPIKEFISH
See SAILFISH - SPIKENARD
An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for - SPIKED
Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman. - REMOVED
1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n. - REMOVE
1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered - SPIKEBILL
The hooded merganser. The marbled godwit . - SPIKELET
A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass. - SPIKETAIL
The pintail duck. - CANNONERING
The use of cannon. Burke. - CANNONRY
Cannon, collectively; artillery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving. - CANNON
A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. (more info) 1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. Note: Cannons are made - UNSPIKE
To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon. - DEMICANNON
A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak. - HANDSPIKE
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes. - CANONIC; CANNONICAL
Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of