spikes

"Spikes your excellent father left sticking out of his martingale," he said, a sort of boyish resentment in his tones.

They passed in silence through the stone gates of the Castle of Spikes.

Spikes sheathed by the stipules in the bud, mostly raised on a peduncle to the surface of the water.

Spikes axillary and terminal, separating spontaneously into joints at maturity.

Spikes held the top board beyond the possibility of a wrench loose.