spear

IPA: spˈɪr

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.

(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.

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