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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