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spear
English
Etymology
From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-Germanic *speru (compare West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spj?r), related to *sparrô (compare Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (compare Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”)). See park.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sp???(?)/
- (Canada, US) IPA(key): /sp??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
spear (plural spears)
- 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.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 187:
- Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […].
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 187:
- 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.
- asparagus and broccoli spears
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- assegai, assagai, assagaie, assagay, assegay, azagaia, hassagay, hassaguay, zagaie, zagaye
- atlatl
- bayonet
- harpoon
- javelin
- joust
- lance
- pike
- spit, used to grill food on fire
- woomera
Verb
spear (third-person singular simple present spears, present participle spearing, simple past and past participle speared)
- (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.
- 2003, Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler, Who's who in Hockey
- Former teammate Derek Sanderson recalls that Maki hit Ted from behind as Green was clearing the puck from the Boston zone. Green turned to knock Maki down, but Maki speared him as he rose from the ice.
- 2003, Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler, Who's who in Hockey
- (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.
Translations
Adjective
spear (not comparable)
- Male.
- a spear counterpart
- 2018, A Very English Scandal (TV series) (episode 1)
- When I was young, I was so desperate I'd go looking on the spear side.
- Pertaining to male family members.
- the spear side of the family
Antonyms
- distaff
Anagrams
- Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spera, apers, apres, après, aprés, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare
Middle English
Noun
spear
- Alternative form of spere (“spear”)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian spere, spiri, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
Noun
spear c (plural spearen, diminutive spearke)
- spear
Further reading
- “spear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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speargun
English
Etymology
spear +? gun
Noun
speargun (plural spearguns)
- A tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.
Translations
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