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spear

Definition

  • noun: a weapon that has a long straight handle and a sharp point
  • noun: a thrusting or throwing weapon with long shaft and sharp head or blade
  • verb: to push a spear or other pointed object into (something)
  • verb: to pierce, strike, or take with or as if with a spear
  • synonyms: lance, spire, bourdon

Examples

  • She 'speared' an olive with a toothpick.

  • The hunters used 'spears'.

  • asparagus 'spears'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) all international expeditions to be aborted by May, .'' What do they care about our maps? What do we find in the desert? Arrowheads spears. ln a war, if you own the desert you own North Africa. Own the desert? Ha! Um, Madox? That place... That place at the bsse of a woman's throat. (..)
    1996 The English Patient