spire
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Is spire a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.archaic
2. (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.Examples: "The spire of the church rose high above the town."
3. (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
verb (English)
1. (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.Examples: "In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre."; "It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms."
2. (transitive) To furnish with a spire.transitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
Definition source: Wiktionary