English edit

Noun edit

spike team (plural spike teams)

  1. (US, date) Three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spike team”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)