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
- It was at the tip of the spear.
- I would prefer spear to lancet.
- The hunters brought spears with them.
- Symbols include the boar and the spear.
- He also wields a magical spear of mugwort.
- He practised riding with the burning spear.
- The woman holds a spear and sheathed sword.
- Currently the Spear is held in the Schatzkammer.
- Currently, the spear is held in the Schatzkammer.
- Here the spear shaft is connected directly to the buoy.
- 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.
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- 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.