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English

Etymology

Old English spere

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈspɪɚ/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-spear.ogg



Noun

  1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a trusting motion.
  2. A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
  3. an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player


Translations

  • Czech: {{t-|cs|kopí|n}}
  • Hungarian: ,
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|槍|tr=yari|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|鑓|tr=yari|sc=Jpan}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|копьё|n|tr=kop’jó|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|ru|дротик|m|tr=drótik|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|簎|tr=yasu|sc=Jpan}}; {{t+|ja|銛|tr=mori|sc=Jpan}}
  • Russian: {{t|ru|острога|f|tr=ostróga|sc=Cyrl}}

See also


Verb

  1. 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.


Related terms


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West Frisian

Noun

spear

  1. spear


Category:West Frisian nouns

ang:spear fr:spear io:spear it:spear hu:spear fi:spear ta:spear te:spear vi:spear vo:spear zh:spear

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spear \Spear\, v. i.
To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.
--Mortimer.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spear \Spear\, n. [OE. spere, AS. spere; akin to D. & G. speer,
OS. & OHS. sper, Icel. spj["o]r, pl., Dan. spaer, L. sparus.]
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.

Note: [See Illust. of Spearhead.] "A sharp ground spear."
--Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks. --Micah iv. 3.
[1913 Webster]

2. Fig.: A spearman. --Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]

3. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing
fish and other animals.
[1913 Webster]

4. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
[1913 Webster]

5. The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
[1913 Webster]

6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is
attached; a pump rod.
[1913 Webster]

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. --Crabb.

Spear side, the male line of a family. --Lowell.

Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle ({Cnicus
lanceolatus}).
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spear \Spear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Speared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Spearing.]
To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a
fish.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet spear
n 1: a long pointed rod used as a weapon [syn: lance, shaft]
2: an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching
fish [syn: gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance]
v 1: pierce with a spear; "spear fish"
2: thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air"
[syn: spear up]
Moby Dictionary
anthrophore , assegai , auger , axis , bag , bayonet , bill , bine , bite ,
blade , bole , bore , bough , bract , bracteole , bractlet , branch ,
branchedness , branchiness , broach , burgeon , cane , carpophore ,
catch , caudex , caulicle , caulis , cotyledon , countersink , culm ,
dagger , deadwood , dirk , drill , empierce , enmesh , ensnare , entangle ,
entrap , fix , flag , flagellum , floral leaf , foliole , footstalk ,
fork , foul , frond , funicule , funiculus , glume , gore , gouge ,
gouge out , halberd , harpoon , haulm , hole , honeycomb , hook , impale ,
involucre , involucrum , javelin , knife , lamina , lance , land , lasso ,
leaf , leaflet , leafstalk , lemma , ligule , limb , mesh , nail , needle ,
net , noose , offshoot , partisan , pedicel , peduncle , penetrate ,
perforate , petal , petiole , petiolule , petiolus , pierce , pike , pile ,
pine needle , pink , plunge in , poniard , prick , punch , puncture ,
ramage , ramification , ream , ream out , reed , riddle , rope ,
run through , runner , saber , sack , sarment , scion , seed leaf ,
seedstalk , sepal , shoot , skewer , slip , snag , snare , sniggle ,
spathe , spike , spire , spit , spontoon , spray , sprig , sprit , sprout ,
stab , stalk , stem , stick , stiletto , stipe , stipula , stipule , stock ,
stolon , straw , sucker , switch , sword , take , tangle , tangle up with ,
tap , tendril , thallus , tigella , transfix , transpierce , trap ,
trepan , trephine , trunk , twig


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