spiker

[ spahy-ker ]

/ ˈspaɪ kər /

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a pointed, perforated tube connected to a garden hose, pushed into the soil for deep watering.

Volleyball. a player who spikes the ball.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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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