What is the name meaning of SPIKE. Phrases containing SPIKE
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SPIKE
Boy/Male
African, American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, Jamaican
Long; Heavy Nail; Spike
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English pile ‘stake’, ‘post’ (via Old English from Latin pilum ‘spike’, ‘javelin’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a stake or post serving as a landmark or a metonymic occupational name for a stake maker or a nickname for a tall strong man.Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a marksman or an arrowsmith, from pijl ‘arrow’.
Boy/Male
Australian, Finnish, German, Irish, Polish, Portuguese, Slavic, Swedish
Fame; Glory; Careful; Spike; Ear of Corn; Famous for his Stead-fast Character; Strength; Stone; Glorious Camp or Stand
Male
English
English byname transferred to forename use, SPIKE means "spiky hair."
Biblical
spike or ear of corn
Girl/Female
Biblical
Spike or ear of corn.
Girl/Female
Arabic
Ear; Spike of Grain
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Spike.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from northern Middle English gad ‘goad’, ‘spike’, ‘sting’ (Old Norse gaddr), hence a metonymic occupational name for a cattle driver or, more likely, a nickname for a persistent and irritating person. The Old Norse word is attested as a byname (see Gadsby).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name, possibly from Tineley in Northumberland, thought to be named with Old English tind ‘tine’, ‘spike’ + lēah ‘forest clearing’, or possibly from Teenley, in West Yorkshire, which is recorded in 1538 as Tyndeley and may be named as ‘burnt (Middle English tend) clearing’.
Girl/Female
Arabic
Ear; Spike of Grain
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English spike ‘spike’; perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin person.
Boy/Male
British, English
Spike of Grain
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Girl/Female
Indian
Knowledge
Girl/Female
Hindi
Divine.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
Lotus Eyed
Boy/Male
Tamil
Artless
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Fayne.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Lynn.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Len.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Shine
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sarovar, Type of Shakti
Boy/Male
Indian
Lord Krishna
Boy/Male
Arabic, Australian
Beautiful; Variant of Jameelah
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of Spike
a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaccae) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard.
n.
A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
n.
A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
v. t.
To fix on a spike.
n.
A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover.
n.
Spike lavender. See Lavender.
n.
A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy.
n.
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 the hair is still prepared in India.
a.
Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.
n.
The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
n.
The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.)
v. t.
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
a.
Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.
v. t.
To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
n.
Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike.
v. t.
To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.
n.
A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.
v. t.
To set or furnish with spikes.