Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A team consisting of three horses or other draft-animals, two of which are at the pole while the third leads.
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Examples
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In single file they crept through the prepared opening in the barbed-wire entanglement, and so out into No Man's Land, where they took up their spike-team formation.
The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales Henry Van Dyke 1892
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For three men, what you want is a spike-team -- middle man crawls ahead, other men follow on each side just near enough to touch his left heel with right hand and right heel with left hand -- a triangle, see?
The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales Henry Van Dyke 1892
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