spiker

[ spahy-ker ]

noun

1. a pointed, perforated tube connected to a garden hose, pushed into the soil for deep watering.
2. Volleyball. a player who spikes spike the ball.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spiker¹

spike ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Elmer Spiker interrupted to inquire whether the turtles I had seen were "black-legs, red-legs, or yaller-legs."

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Elmer Spiker, mine host of the inn, was huddled close to the stove, and was reading by the light of a lamp.

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Spiker was willing to bet that right now Weston was over the way trying to prove to them that two and two was four.

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This was too direct a slap at Elmer Spiker to pass unnoticed; Elmer was too old an arguer to use any ponderous weapon in return.

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"It's a problem no scholar ever solved in the history of this walley, anyway," declared Elmer Spiker.

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