spike

piikki

nousta A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward/outward.
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
Addison

He wears on his head the corona radiata (..); the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun.

It was all true, it appeared. He sat down and wrote it, the editor read it and said: &39; We don&39;t use stories like this in this newspaper.&39; So the story ended up on the spike, reinforcing the principle that wife-swapping, unlike justice, must not be seen to be done.

Later I was entrusted with writing the letters to the editor, because nobody else ever wrote to our paper. The editor, Eric Lewis, had a slash and burn style of editing that left its mark on me forever. Most of my stories ended up on the spike.

Assuming that word of the death reached the Times&39;s newsroom at all, it would have taken little more than one bleary-eyed night editor who had heard neither of Ventris nor of linear B for the obituary to have been consigned to the spike.

"Dere's tay spikes, and cocoa spikes, and skilly spikes."

oil of spike

She spiked my lemonade with vodka!

The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.

He jumped down, wrenched the hammer from the armourer’s hand, and seizing a nail from the bag, in a few moments he had spiked the gun.

Small skirmishes also took place, and the Afghans managed to seize a pair of mule-guns and force the British to spike and abandon two other precious guns.

Instead, the "Beaver" declared he would spike the story about Wallis Simpson and make sure his fellow media moguls sat on it too.

Nicolaas, or Nick, as the family called him, wanted to turn professional but an ear injury, sustained during the war, spiked his plans.

Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads.

to spike down planks

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