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▸ noun: A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
▸ noun: Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
▸ noun: A sharp or tapering point.
▸ noun: (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
▸ noun: The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
▸ noun: (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
▸ verb: (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
▸ verb: To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish with a spire.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.
▸ noun: One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
▸ noun: A spiral.
▸ noun: (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
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Baroque spire,
Renaissance spire,
Romanesque spire,
Art Deco spire,
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