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harpoon

English

Etymology

From Old French harpon, from Latin harpaga, a rare variant of Latin harpag?, from Ancient Greek ?????? (harpág?, hook), from ?????? (harpáz?, to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate). Sense and spelling perhaps influenced by Dutch harpoen (harpoon). Doublet of harpagon.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: härpo?on?, IPA(key): /h????pu?n/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: härpo?on?, IPA(key): /h???pu?n/
  • Rhymes: -u?n
  • Hyphenation: har?poon

Noun

harpoon (plural harpoons)

  1. A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
  2. (slang) A harmonica.

Derived terms

  • harpoon fork

Translations

Verb

harpoon (third-person singular simple present harpoons, present participle harpooning, simple past and past participle harpooned)

  1. (transitive) To shoot something with a harpoon.

Derived terms

  • harpooner

Translations

See also

  • spear

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speargun

English

Etymology

spear +? gun

Noun

speargun (plural spearguns)

  1. A tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.

Translations

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