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Definition spire

Etymology 1

From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English sp?r, from Proto-Germanic *sp?r?, *sp?r? (�peak; point; tip; stalk�). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic sp�ra.

Noun

spire (plural spires)

1. (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant. [from 10th c.]
2. A young shoot of a plant; a spear. [from 14th c.]
3. Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
4. A sharp or tapering point. [from 16th c.]
5. A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. [from 16th c.]
6. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. [from 17th c.]
7. (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

Verb

spire (third-person singular simple present spires, present participle spiring, simple past and past participle spired)

1. (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. [from 14th c.]
2. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. [from 14th c.]
3. (transitive) To furnish with a spire.

Etymology 2

From Old French spirer, and its source, Latin sp?r? (�to breathe�).

Verb

spire (third-person singular simple present spires, present participle spiring, simple past and past participle spired)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe. [14th-16th c.]

Etymology 3

From Middle French spire.

Noun

spire (plural spires)

1. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. [from 16th c.]
2. A spiral. [from 17th c.]
3. (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

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