Word Meaning

Meaning of "spired" and the crossword clue

- Church tower
- Steeple
- Tall structure
- Tall tapering structure
- Top of a church
- tapering to a point
- To breathe.
- A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
- A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
- A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
- A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
- The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
- of Spire
- Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple.