spear

Meanings

Plural: spears

Noun

• a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
• an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
• A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
• A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
• A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
• An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
• 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.
• The sprout of a plant, stalk
• A church spire.

Verb

• pierce with a spear
  • "spear fish"
• thrust up like a spear
  • "The branch speared up into the air"
• To pierce with a spear.
• 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.
• To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
• To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
• To ignore as a social snub.

Adj

• Male.
• Pertaining to male family members.

Synonyms

blank, cut, fishgig, fizgig, gig, lance, shaft, spear up

Antonyms

distaff

Related Words

assagai, assagaie, assagay, assegai, assegay, atlatl, azagaia, bayonet, harpoon, hassagay, hassaguay, javelin, joust, lance, pike, spit, used to grill food on fire, woomera, zagaie, zagaye

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