Word Finder - spear

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A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.

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A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.

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A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.

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An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.

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In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.

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A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

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The feather of a horse.

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The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.

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A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

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asparagus and broccoli spears

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To pierce with a spear.

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(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.

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

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Male.

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a spear counterpart

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Pertaining to male family members.

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the spear side of the family

The turban and the spear became the banner of the Spanish Omayyads.

The chief weapons were the sword and spear.

Here the horse and spear are still used, and the sport is one of the most popular in India.

Amymone having thrown her spear at a stag, missed it, but hit a satyr asleep in the brake.

No definite line can be drawn between the spear proper and the javelin.

Bruce evaded his spear and slew him with an axe stroke; the axe shaft broke in his hand.

Docks & Spear thistle in pasture were looked at.

In spite of his small stature, he held his own amongst the other heroes before Troy; he was brave, next to Achilles in swiftness of foot and famous for throwing the spear.

They use a stabbing spear, small throwing spears, and a broad-bladed short sword.

Early vase paintings show him doing the deed with a sword or spear - there was no riddle, no suicide.

For example, if you have to find a bowl or a spear, having a visual of exactly what that bowl or spear looks like makes finding the cleverly disguised items easier as they blend into a detailed background scene.

While no official word has come down as to the name of the pop star's newborn, the couple had originally planned to name a baby girl Jailynn -- a combined tribute to Spear's parents, Jamie and Lynn.

Once you get the hang of spear throwing it can be an effective weapon on flying and land-based creatures.

Besides using a rod and reel, you can also fish with a spear gun, fish while SCUBA diving and do a little bow fishing.

The two spear fishermen were not far from the beach.

To coat the asparagus with the oil, you may pour the mixed oil and garlic in the bottom of the pan, add the asparagus and, using your hands, roll the asparagus around in the oil until each spear is coated.

Aeglos, the spear carried by the high King of the Noldor, Gil-galad, in the War of the Last Alliance.

When an opponent drew too close, the soldiers could engage the bayonet for use as a spear or dagger.

While the use of the bow and arrow does not seem to have occurred to them, the spear and axe are in general use, commonly made of hard-wood; the hatchets of stone, and the javelins pointed' with stone or bone.

They have an ancient spear which they believe was brought from Samoa, and they actually name the valley from which their ancestors started.

They are famous, too, as hunters of big game, attacking even elephants with sword and spear.

It was hunted in England and in Europe on foot and on horseback with dogs, while the weapon of attack was always the spear.

Bellerophon,mounted on Pegasus(q.v.),kept up in the air out of the way of the Chimaera, but yet near enough to kill it with his spear, or, as he is at other times represented,with his sword or with a bow.

The word wapentake seems to have been first applied to the periodical meetings of the magnates of a district; and, if we may believe the 12th century compilation known as the Leges Edwardi, it took its name from the custom in accordance with which they touched the spear of their newly-appointed magistrate with their own spears and so confirmed his appointment.

In the Chalk of the south-east of England nodules of marcasite with a fibrous radiated structure are abundant, and in the Chalk Marl between Dover and Folkestone fine twinned groups of "spear pyrites" are common.

The assault on Thebes was disastrous for the Seven; and Amphiaraus, pursued by Periclymenus, would have been slain with his spear, had not Zeus with a thunderbolt opened a chasm into which the seer, with his chariot, horses and charioteer, disappeared.

Abdar-rahman's army was so ill provided that he mounted almost the only good war-horse in it; he had no banner, and one was improvised by unwinding a green turban and binding it round the head of a spear.

His head was taken to Damascus and carried about the city at the end of a spear.

His weapons, tools and other appliances such as the hammer, hatchet, spear, knife, awl, thread, net, canoe, &c., are the evident rudimentary analogues of what still remains in use among Europeans.

The stone hatchets are symmetrically shaped and edged by grinding, while the cutting flakes, scrapers, spear and arrow heads are of high finish.

No spear thrower or bow and arrow was known.

The men scarcely ever appear without a long curved knife, generally they carry shield and spear as well.

The original arms were a sickle-shaped sword, spear and shield.

In elephant-hunting iron bullets weighing a quarter of a pound are used; throwing-clubs are employed for small game, and lions are hunted with the spear.

The spear and arrows are identified with the beams of the sun and moon.

The cult is found not only where oriental influence was strongest, but in places remote from it, such as Sparta, where she was known by the name of Areia (" the warlike "), and there are numerous references in the Anthology to an Aphrodite armed with helmet and spear.

At the end of the first year of training, the ephebi were reviewed, and, if their performance was satisfactory, were provided by the state with a spear and a shield, which, together with the chlamys (cloak) and petasus (broad-brimmed hat), made up their equipment.

Though they are mainly dependent on the chase for food, their weapons are still the spear and the bow, the latter being made of wood and strung with bamboo.

Next morning (October 14) William marched out from Hastings and attacked the English host, which stood at bay in a solid mass of spear and axemen behind a slight breastwork on the hillside.

Their occupation was hunting and war; their arms the bow, spear, axe, a half shield, nearly in the shape of a crescent, called pelta, and in early art a helmet, the model before the Greek mind having apparently been the goddess Athena.

He is represented standing, holding in the extended right hand an eagle, in the left a spear, the hasta pura.

The karwar is about a foot high, with head disproportionately large; the male figures are sometimes represented with a spear and shield, the female holding a snake.

Hagen, seizing the spear, thrust it through the spot marked by Kriemhild on Siegfried's surcoat.

The cast brass handgrip has spear head shaped mounting plates and a good, curved grip.

The crest is a spear broken into three pieces, two in saltire and the head in pale proper, banded gules.

Four more show hoplites using their swords, which were used for hand-to-hand combat if the spear was broken in the initial clash.

The spear end could apply significant injury to a knight in armor, or a knight in armor, or a knights horse.

Even possession of a (normally) two-handed weapon such as the spear didn't obviate the necessity of acquiring empty-handed skills.

This spear is also held by the nobleman who is on Shakspere's right.

Sward management should aim to encourage a dense cover of grass to form otherwise spear thistle seedlings will establish in thin or bare areas.