[f. SPIKE sb.2]
1. Provided with spikes or sharp points.
1681. Grew, Musæum, I. vi. i. 125. The Spiked-Wilk. Murex Aculeatus.
a. 1727. Newton, Chronol. Amended (1728), 319. An archer … crowned with a spiked crown.
1763. Brit. Mag., IV. 206/2. Shot, of all sizes, from 28 pounders to four ounces…. Grape ditto…. Spiked [ditto].
1830. Skelton, Meyrick’s Arms & Armour, II. Pl. 80. The long spiked-rowel spur of Edward IV’s time, of iron.
1850. ‘Bat,’ Cricketer’s Manual, 104. Spiked Soles for Cricket Shoes.
1884. W. S. B. McLaren, Spinning (ed. 2), 182. The three spiked workers … revolve above it in the opposite direction.
transf. 1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Deronda, III. xlii. 242. The yoke of oppression was a spiked torture.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 157. [The temperature] is of a strikingly ‘spiked’ character when charted.
2. Spiked buck, a spike-buck. U.S.
1897. Outing, XXIX. 439/1. A strong, young, spiked buck.
