Sentence:  Although they journeyed westerly as far as Germantown , beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine shop , and along the Delaware and Hudson Canal , and northward to Brooklyn , below Point Peter , he could see the church <WSD>spire</WSD> wherever he looked back . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top