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Definition of 'spear'Noun
( en-noun)
A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 187:
- Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […].
A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
(ice hockey) an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
(wrestling) a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
A spearman.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
The feather of a horse.
The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
- asparagus and broccoli spears
Derived terms
* spearbush
* spear gun
* spearhead
* spearmint
* spear thrower
* spear tackle
* spearwood
See also
* assegai, assagai, assagaie, assagay, assegay, azagaia, hassagay, hassaguay, zagaie, zagaye
* atlatl
* bayonet
* harpoon
* javelin
* joust
* lance
* pike
* spit, used to grill food on fire
* woomera
Verb
( en-verb)
To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
- (Mortimer)
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