meaning of spire
1. To breathe.
2. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
3. 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.
4. A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
5. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
6. To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
7. A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
8. The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
9. a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building usually a church or temple and that tapers to a point at the top
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