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