Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spiked"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spike \Spike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spiked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Spiking}.]
1. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike
down planks.
2. To set or furnish with spikes.
3. To fix on a spike. [R.] --Young.
4. To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike
nail, or the like into it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spiked \Spiked\, a.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spiked
adj 1: equipped with long sharp-pointed projections especially
along the top of a wall or fence; "the fence was iron
and spiked along the top"
2: having a long sharp point
3: having alcohol added; "a cup of brandy-laced coffee"; "he
drank too much of the spiked punch" [syn: {laced}]
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