SPEAR

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

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Etymology

Proper noun

Spear

An English surname.

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

Etymology

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.

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.

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.

(intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

Adjective

spear (not comparable)

Male.

Pertaining to male family members.

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

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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