[f. SPIKE v.1]
1. The action of fastening or piercing with a spike or spikes.
1775. in Ash.
1887. A. Taylor Innes, in 19th Cent., Aug., 176. The spiking and subsequent death of John M.
2. Spiking crib or curb: (see later quots.).
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 972. In this operation, three kinds of cribs are employed; called wedging, spiking, and main cribs. Ibid., 973. The next operation is to fix spiking cribs … to the rock.
1867. W. W. Smyth, Coal & Coal-mining, 114. Lighter rings of wood, the spiking curbs, were then placed at intervals of 18 inches to 3 feet, according to the pressure.
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining, 230–1. Spiking Curbs. Light rings of wood to which planks are spiked,… when plank tubbing is used in sinking through water-bearing ground.
