noun. A bandage applied in overlapping opposite spirals to immobilize a digit or limb.

noun. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk.

"The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears."