What is a slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer called?
spire — A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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