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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
spear n 1: a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon [syn: spear, lance, shaft] 2: an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish [syn: spear, 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, spear up] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
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] | ||
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Spear \Spear\, v. i. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] | ||
4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
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] | ||
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