Klingon word: wIl Part of speech: noun Definition: spike Source: (email to Qov, 13 august 2012) _______________________________________________ (Qov < Okrand, 8/13/2012): The word for screw is Hut'In vIl, which is, of course, a ridgy Hut'In. Turns out Hut'In is the word for nail. Maltz also volunteered that the word for spike is wIl. PUNS: 1. William Pratt ("Spike") was a recurring character on the TV series Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. 2. Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock music project, founded in 1988. RELATED WORDS: (KGT 61): A spike is a DuQwI' and the small spikes on the d'k tahg are usually called DuQwI'Hommey (little spikes). (KGT 58): A warrior's glove (pogh), also made of skin, had wide band around the wrist and sharp protrusions at the knuckles. If there was a special name for these protrusions, it is lost; they are now called simply DuQwI'mey (spikes). (KGT 58): On the toe of each high boot (DaS), likewise made of animal hide (DIr), was a clawlike spike called a pu'. The word pu' now means phaser, and the newer meaning probably developed from the older spike because of the lightning speed with which one delivered a blow with the sharp pu'. In contemporary Klingon, the spike on the toe of a boot is always called a DaSpu' (boot spike), never pu' alone. (KGT 67) : Included in this category is the ghanjaq, often translated as mace, a club with a metal head, sometimes sporting spikes (DuQwI'mey). -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons