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Spear   /spɪr/   Listen
noun
Spear  n.  
1.
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. "A sharp ground spear." "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks."
2.
Fig.: A spearman.
3.
A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
4.
A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
5.
The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
6.
The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
Spear foot, the off hind foot of a horse.
Spear grass. (Bot.)
(a)
The common reed. See Reed, n., 1.
(b)
meadow grass. See under Meadow.
Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand.
Spear side, the male line of a family.
Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus).


verb
Spear  v. t.  (past & past part. speared; pres. part. spearing)  To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.


Spear  v. i.  To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.





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"Spear" Quotes from Famous Books



... . . . speak. The reference is to Iliad, VII, 54 ff., though Hector is there described as keeping back the Trojans with his spear. ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman
... apparently less employed by the Indians of the Columbia, is harpooning with a very clever instrument constructed after this wise. A hard-wood shaft is neatly, but not tightly, fitted into the socket of a sharp-barbed spear-head carved from bone. Through a hole drilled in the spear-head a stout cord of deer-sinew is fastened by one end, its other being secured to the shaft near its insertion. The salmon is struck by this weapon in the manner of the ordinary fish-spear; the head slips off the shaft as soon as the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various
... midnight, and she had listened with bated breath. She could see Owen leaning forward, telling the story, and she could even see her own listening face as he related how the poor fool rises through sanctification of faith and repudiation of doubt, how he heals the sick king with the sacred spear and becomes himself the high priest of the Grail. It had seemed to Evelyn that she had been carried beyond the limits of earthly things. The thrill and shiver of the dead man's genius haunted the liquid ripple of the river; the moment was ecstatic; the deep, windless night was full of ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore
... spear of hair out of my head, but I'll get the thing off. Ow!"—as she began to put ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... each gave the other a merry word and passed their way; now he saw a fair lady upon an ambling pad, to whom he doffed his cap, and who bowed sedately in return to the fair youth; now he saw a fat monk on a pannier-laden ass; now a gallant knight, with spear and shield and armor that flashed brightly in the sunlight; now a page clad in crimson; and now a stout burgher from good Nottingham Town, pacing along with serious footsteps; all these sights he saw, but adventure found he none. At ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle


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