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Spear

/spɪɹ/

A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.

📖 Definitions of "Spear"

noun
  1. 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. 2

    A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.

  3. 3

    A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.

  4. 4

    An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.

verb
  1. 1

    To pierce with a spear.

  2. 2

    (by extension) 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. 3

    To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

adjective
  1. 1

    Male.

    "a spear counterpart"

  2. 2

    Pertaining to male family members.

    "the spear side of the family"

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