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adjective

Spiky adj.

Like a spike; spikelike. "These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors."

Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes. "Or by the spiky harrow cleared away." "The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore."

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Etymology of 'Spiky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spiky" Quotes from Famous Books

... the scene beautiful, the wind life-giving, the flat sand-banks, the shining levels, even the dry, spiky grass that fluttered in the ...

— The Return Of The Soul - 1896 • Robert S. Hichens

... George. When soon we reached a manzanita thicket I could no longer keep Copple in sight. He was so powerful that he just crashed through, but I had to worm my way, and walk over the tops of the bushes, like a tight-rope performer. Of all strong, thick, spiky brush manzanita was ...

— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey

... with wet clay; I know where there is plenty of that. Meantime see what is done to our hands. The crown of this great palm-tree lies at the southern aperture of your house, and blocks it entirely up. That will keep off the only cold wind, the south wind, from you to-night. Then look at these long, spiky leaves interlaced over your head. (These trees are screw pines.) There is a roof ready made. You must have another roof underneath that, but it will do for a day ...

— Foul Play • Charles Reade

... separated from the most characteristic and stirring elements in his generation. We are not resigned anywhere else. Everywhere else we count it our pride and glory to be unresigned. We are not resigned even to a thorny cactus, whose spiky exterior seems a convincing argument against its use for food. When we see a barren plain we do not say as our fathers did: God made plains so in his inscrutable wisdom; his will be done! We call for irrigation and, when the fructifying waters flow, we say, Thy will be done! in the way we think ...

— Christianity and Progress • Harry Emerson Fosdick

... flows; and as we rode, he had us leaning back in our saddles, in danger of cricking our necks, to look up at lofty heights above us, until a rocky peninsula running right into the river, after we had clambered up its sides like squirrels, he led the way across its spiky surfaced summit, and soon we were leaning forward over our horses' necks in danger of taking somersaults into space, as we peered over the sides of a precipice at the river away down beneath us. "Nothing like variety," Dan ...

— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

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