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spear

UK /spɪə̯(ɹ)/US /spɪɹ/

noun11

  1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
  2. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
  3. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
  4. In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
  5. (historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
  6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
  7. The sprout of a plant, stalk
  8. An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
  9. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
  10. The feather of a horse.
  11. (no longer used) A church spire.

verb5

  1. To pierce with a spear.
  2. 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.
  3. To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
  4. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
  5. (no longer used) To ignore as a social snub.

adjective2

  1. Male.
  2. Pertaining to male family members.
forms

speared · spearing · speareth · spears

Phrases with spear

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