Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: spiked
IPA transcription: [sp'aɪkt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: spiked
    Meaning: having a long sharp point
Usage examples
  • The torture in the spiked barrel is over.
  • Her land is spiked with glistening monuments to greatness gone.
  • Some of these no doubt they could press into their service against me if need arose. I knew both Moreau and Montgomery carried revolvers; and, save for a feeble bar of deal spiked with a small nail, the merest mockery of a mace, I was unarmed.
  • Out from one side of his head, and mingling with his whiskers, projected the long, spiked spine of the big fish: down from the other side of that ferocious head dangled the fish's tail, and from above the remarkable effect thus produced shot the intolerable glare of two yellow eyes.