(now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.

A young shoot of a plant; a spear.

Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

A sharp or tapering point.

(architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.

The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

(mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.

A spiral.

(geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.

To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.

(transitive) To furnish with a spire.

(intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.