unspike
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unspike (third-person singular simple present unspikes, present participle unspiking, simple past and past participle unspiked)
- To remove a spike from.
- unspiking the vent of a cannon
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “unspike”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)