spired

See also: 'spired

English

Etymology

From spire +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d

Adjective

spired (not comparable)

1. having a spire
   • 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California‎^[1]:

     Perhaps some one of the multitude excites special attention, some gigantic castle with turret and battlement, or some Gothic cathedral more abundantly spired than Milan's.

   • 1922, Edwin Bjorkman, The Soul of a Child‎^[2]:

     This was true not only of the trip on the steamer, the arrival at Enkoeping with its little old-fashioned red houses, the meeting with Mr. Swanson, the drive of thirty miles or more inland, the arrival at the sexton's house not far from a white spired church, and the introduction to a seemingly endless number of new faces, but of the whole long summer.

Anagrams

• Prides, Spider, prides, prised, re-dips, redips, risped, spider