Device To Puncture or Fasten
- Nail (fastener), especially one over ten inches long
- Rail spike, or Screw spike used to construct railroad tracks
- Tree spiking, making a tree dangerous to cut with a chainsaw
- "Spiking a gun", rendering a muzzle-loading gun inoperable by driving a nail into the touch hole
- Spike strip, tire deflation device
- Spike bayonet, an attachment for a firearm
- Punji stick, a type of booby trapped stake, usually deployed in substantial numbers
- Cleat (shoe), protrusions on the sole of a shoe
- Caltrop, an antipersonnel weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron)
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Famous quotes containing the words device, puncture and/or fasten:
“Johnson did not answer ...; but talking for victory and determined to be master of the field, he had recourse to the device which Goldsmith imputed to him in the witty words of one of Cibber’s comedies. “There is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“And no one, it seemed, had had the presence of mind
To initiate proceedings or stop the wheel
From the number it was backing away from as it stopped:
It was performing prettily; the puncture stayed unseen....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“When Dad can’t get the diaper on straight, we laugh at him as though he were trying to walk around in high-heel shoes. Do we ever assist him by pointing out that all you have to do is lay out the diaper like a baseball diamond, put the kid’s butt on the pitcher’s mound, bring home plate up, then fasten the tapes at first and third base?”
—Michael K. Meyerhoff (20th century)