spear

IPA: spˈɪr

noun

  • A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
  • (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
  • A lance with barbed prongs, 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) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
  • 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.
  • (botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk
  • (obsolete) A church spire.
  • An English surname.

verb

  • (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
  • (transitive, 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.
  • (gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
  • (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
  • (transitive, obsolete, social, esp. Regency England) To ignore as a social snub.

adjective

  • Male.
  • Pertaining to male family members.
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Examples of "spear" in Sentences

  • An 'the blacksmith made him what he called a spear-head.
  • He did, however, kill a buffalo with a spear from the ground.
  • “Princess!” shouted Mist she had been fighting of more Goblin spear holders
  • His neck resembles an Easter ham and his spear is the size of a telephone pole.
  • This hungry bird gives another meaning to the term spear fishing - as she turns her unlucky prey into a fish kebab.
  • Anyone who can bring down a mammoth with a spear is pretty damn advanced in my book and I consider them an ancestor in spirit if not DNA.
  • Here are a few of the options: Collins/Hi-Ball Ice This long "spear" is perfect for tall glasses, slowly lowering the temperature of your drink without affecting any carbonation in it.
  • Among these changes we can count: the shift from an organisation with mass support to a movement of mass participation; the adoption of the Freedom Charter as the ideological lodestar of the movement; the emergence of non-racialism not only as a goal but as a way to that goal; similarly, the emergence of non-sexism not only as an goal but as a way to that goal; the clear role of workers through their organised formations, which he described as the spear to the ANC's shield; through his own example, the clearest definition of the role of traditional leadership in a democratic and democratising society; the adoption of the tactic of international sanctions against apartheid South Africa; the adoption of armed struggle against apartheid and the organisational review necessary to ensure that adoption did not have the consequence of a wholesale legal assumption, so that to have been an ANC member did not automatically mean being part of the armed wing.

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