The sailor reached into the chest and pulled out two well-worn marling spikes used for splicing stubborn rope.

The museum's exhibit featured ancient golden spikes recovered from a shipwreck.

At the punk festival, several attendees wore towering liberty spikes that glittered under the stage lights.

The dockworkers used heavy hand-spikes to lever the crates onto the ship.

The sailmaker reached for the marlin-spikes to splice the heavy rope.

When the baby gets sick, her body spikes a temperature that makes her sleepy.

When the child catches a cold, the infection sometimes spikes a temp overnight.

Before the race, she tightened the track spikes to make sure they wouldn't come loose.

He hammered the railroad spikes into the wooden ties to secure the rails.

The salvage team pried several rail spikes from the ties to sell as scrap.