spire has definitions from the field of architecture
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[ noun ] (architecture) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

Synonyms

steeple

Used in print

(Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)

The spire seemed to hold_up the sky .

Although they journeyed westerly as far as Germantown , beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine_shop , and along the Delaware and Hudson_Canal , and northward to Brooklyn , below Point_Peter , he could see the church spire wherever he looked_back .

The great spire shone as if the lightning had polished it .

Related terms

tower pinnacle church_service

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