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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"
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A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
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A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
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A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
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An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
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To pierce with a spear.
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(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.
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To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
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Male.
"a spear counterpart"
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Pertaining to male family members.
"the spear side of the family"
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