plural of marlin-spike

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spike someone's guns

A fast, short duration surge (overvoltage) in the electric potential of a circuit; a power surge.

plural of spike moss

Any of various simple vascular plants, of the family Selaginellaceae, that resemble mosses and produce spores.

A lightweight shoe with spikes screwed into its bottom in order to maximize traction (and therefore performance) when running or jumping.

(rail transport, US) A type of large nail that fixes a railway line to a sleeper.

(cognitive science) A binary waveform representation of neuronal activity, where an action potential is represented as a single 1 separated from others by a stream of zeros.

plural of spike strip

A device consisting of a portable bed of nails used by police and armed forces to puncture car tires.