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Noun
Then, pull over for 50-foot-high fossil rock outcroppings and limestone spires on the Kansas prairie at Monument Rocks, which is on private land that’s open to the public south of Oakley, Kansas, right off I-70.—Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2025 The teen’s friend fell on top of him, pushing the boy’s leg into a sharp spire of the fence.—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025
Verb
Both crosses were removed from the cathedral’s steeple and spire in 1998 for building renovations.—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for spire
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Old English spīr; akin to Middle Dutch spier blade of grass
Noun (2)
Latin spira coil, from Greek speira; perhaps akin to Greek sparton rope, esparto
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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