spear, lance, shaft
(noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance
(noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
spear
(verb) pierce with a spear; “spear fish”
spear, spear up
(verb) thrust up like a spear; “The branch speared up into the air”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Spear
An English surname.
• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spera, apers, apres, après, aprĂ©s, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare
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.
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.
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.
(intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
spear (not comparable)
Male.
Pertaining to male family members.
• distaff
• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spera, apers, apres, après, aprĂ©s, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare
Source: Wiktionary
Spear, n. Etym: [OE. spere, AS. spere; akin to D. & G. speer, OS. & OHS. sper, Icel. spjör, pl., Dan. spær, 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. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Micah iv. 3.
2. Fig.: A spearman. Sir W. Scott.
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. Crabb.
– Spear side, the male line of a family. Lowell.
– Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus).
Spear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Speared; p. pr. & vb. n. Spearing.]
Definition: To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
Spear, v. i.
Definition: To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. Mortimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
