spike

The trap was lined with spikes.

He wears on his head the corona radiata […] ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun.

If the border were shut down, consumers would most likely see an immediate spike in food prices, and supplies of fresh food could dwindle from grocery store shelves in a matter of days.

It was all true, it appeared. He sat down and wrote it, the editor read it and said: ' We don't use stories like this in this newspaper.' So the story ended up on the spike, reinforcing the principle that wife-swapping, unlike justice, must not be seen to be done.

Dere's tay spikes, and cocoa spikes, and skilly spikes.

oil of spike

Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.

An architectural spike is used to prove that a specific technical approach works. Teams will often do an architectural spike when they have a few different options for designing a specific technical solution, or if they don't know if a certain approach will work.