Spear

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A weapon consisting of a long shaft with a sharply pointed end.
  • n. A shaft with a sharp point and barbs for spearing fish.
  • n. A soldier armed with a spear.
  • v. To pierce with or as if with a spear.
  • v. To catch with a thrust of the arm: spear a football.
  • v. Football To block (an opponent) by ramming with the helmet, in violation of the rules.
  • v. Sports To jab (an opponent) with the blade of a hockey stick, in violation of the rules.
  • verb-intransitive. To stab at something with or as if with a spear.
  • n. A slender stalk, as of asparagus.
  • verb-intransitive. To sprout like a spear.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
  • n. A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
  • n. A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
  • n. an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
  • n. a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
  • n. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
  • n. Fig.: A spearman.
  • n. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
  • n. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
  • n. The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
  • n. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
  • v. To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear.
  • verb-intransitive. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See spire.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A weapon consisting of a penetrating head attached to a long shaft of wood, designed to be thrust by or launched from the hand at an enemy or at game.
  • n. A man armed with a spear; a spearman.
  • n. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbed tines, generally three or four, used for stabbing fish and other animals; a fish-gig.
  • n. An instrument like or suggestive of an actual spear, as some articles of domestic or mechanical use, one of the long pieces fixed transversely to the beam or body of chevaux-de-frise, in some parts of England a bee's sting, etc.
  • n. One of the pieces of timber which together form the main rod of the Cornish pumping-engine.
  • n. The feather of a horse. Also called the streak of the spear.
  • n. A spire: now used only of the stalks of grasses: as, a spear of wheat.
  • To pierce or strike with a spear or similar weapon: as, to spear fish.
  • To shoot into a long stem; germinate, as barley. See spire.
  • An obsolete form of speer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
  • v. pierce with a spear
  • v. thrust up like a spear
  • n. an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
  • Verb Form
    speared    speares    spearing    spears   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    impale    spike    transfix    empale    jut    project    jut out    stick out    protrude   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    feather    spire   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lance    spire    bourdon    gaff    pike    leister    trident    harpoon    dart   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bombardier    Chevalier    Clear    Deere    Fear    Greer    Imagineer    Lanier    Lear    Meir   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    lance    sword    dagger    arrow    axe    dart    shield    whip    bow    armor