SPEARING

Verb

spearing

present participle of spear

Noun

spearing (plural spearings)

The stabbing of something with a spear.

Anagrams

• Pinegars, preasing, reapings

Source: Wiktionary

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SPEAR

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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