"Steeple" is a word in ENGLISH

Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.

Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, …

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes …

A spire rising from a tower.

An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.

An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.

Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a …

One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration …

Those who adhered to the doctrine of Luther; so called because, in 1529, they protested against a decree of the …

The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part …

A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument.

Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.

To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.

A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.