Spikers

And while it is not armed itself, the auxiliary robocraft called spikers that it carries are fitted with powerful cannons capable of boring through Chispa's strongest defensive shields. " ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1998)

The ones that are the true "spikers" of the pension system are the Firemen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Without any outside compulsion, they will continue the status quo and shoot the spikers just to say they shot a buck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Today in Sports: The birth of setters and spikers. ❋ Len Berman (2011)

And if you can spend weeks in the woods, you may be able to pattern that five year old buck with all those antlers and let the spikers walk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr. Castro built a state-sponsored sports machine that produced world-famous boxers and baseball players, killer volleyball spikers and fleet-footed runners. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My first contact with the ball is a one-handed block clear across the net against their two best spikers. ❋ Grouse (2001)

The spikers drove into those ties 28,160 spikes, put in place by the Chinese—the spikes weighed 55,000 pounds. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

Behind the men pulling off the rails and putting them into place came the gaugers, then the spikers and bolters, who all swarmed to the rail in rapid succession, measuring and squaring and pounding it into place. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

Complicating the matter are third-party obstacles: roadside obstacles and cannons, immobile mines in the road, and roving spikers. ❋ Unknown (1993)

I turn on my heel with an imprecation which "Ingleese-spikers" understand. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Our two head-spikers had a disagreement this morning, and have gone across the yards to settle it," explained one of the time-keepers through his towel. ❋ Francis Lovell Coombs (N/A)

Our sections here were about eight miles long, and we arranged our men on the basis blocked out by the committee, viz., 24 to 26 men to the section, consisting of 6 spike pullers, 4 throwing rails, 12 spikers, 2 to push the cars and carry water. ❋ Various (N/A)

Neale restrained what might have been contempt, but he thought that if these financiers could have seen the life of the diggers and spikers as he knew it they might be actuated by a nobler motive. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)

When he strode back for another load his magnifying eyes gloated over the toilers in action -- the rows of men carrying and laying rails, and the splendid brawny figures of the spikers, naked to the waist, swinging the heavy sledges. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)

The drivers -- the spikers -- the men who nailed the rails -- who riveted the last links -- these brawny, half-naked wielders of the sledges, bronzed as Indians, seemed to embody both the romance and the achievement. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)