spiker

From spike +‎ -er.

spiker (plural spikers)

1. (volleyball) One who spikes.
2. (railways) An engineer employed to drive in the nails that fasten the rails.
3. (railways) A mechanical device for driving in the nails.

• Kipers, pikers

From Middle Low German spîker, from Old Saxon *spīkari, from Proto-West Germanic *spīkr, *spīkrī, from Proto-Germanic *spīkraz, *spīkrijaz (“spike, nail”).

• Audio:

  (file)

spiker m (definite singular spikeren, indefinite plural spiker or spikere or spikre or spikrer, definite plural spikerne or spikrene)

1. a nail (spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials)

• spikar (Nynorsk)

• “spiker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English speaker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.kɛr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ikɛr
• Syllabification: spi‧ker

spiker m pers (female equivalent spikerka)

1. (television, radio) announcer, newsreader
2. (politics) speaker

• spiker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• spiker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English speaker.

• IPA^(key): /spîker/
• Hyphenation: spi‧ker

spȉker m anim (Cyrillic spelling спи̏кер)

1. newsreader, announcer

• “spiker”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From English speaker.

• IPA^(key): /spi.cɛɾ/

spiker (definite accusative spikeri, plural spikerler)

1. newscaster, anchorman, anchorwoman