steeple

A tower rising above the roof of a building, especially as a church or temple, and usually surmounted by a spire.

A spire.

To rise above other buildings or objects as a steeple or a spire.

A typically lofty structure attached to a church, town-house, or other public edifice, and generally intended to contain the bells of such edifice.

A lofty head-dress worn by women in the fourteenth century. See hennin.

A pyramidal pile or stack of fish set to dry. Also called pack. See the quotation under pack, 10 .

A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See spire.

See Rood tower, under Rood.

a low shrub (Spiræa tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack.

a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc.