spire
/ˈspaɪ.ɚ/ noun C2- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- A sharp or tapering point.
- A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
Plural spires
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All they could see was a mass of towers and steeples behind the green walls, and high up above everything the spires and dome of the Palace of Oz.
But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.
Armies march by tower and spire
To the west a dark church spire rose up against a marigold sky.
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