Word Finder - spears

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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.

Their weapons consisted of bow and arrows, short swords, spears and axes.

The weapons were wooden spears, clubs and stone tomahawks.

Constable, the Ballantyne Press, Morrison & Gibb, Turnbull & Spears, and others, admirably maintain the traditional reputation of the Edinburgh press.

The old Greek statues moved of themselves, shook their spears, kneeled down, spoke, walked, wept, laughed, winked, and even bled and sweated, - a mighty portent.

The archers shot well and with strong bows, though their arrows were generally tipped only with stone or bone; their shields or targets, mostly round, were of ordinary barbaric forms; the spears or javelins had heads of obsidian or bronze, and were sometimes hurled with a spear-thrower or atlatl, of which pictures and specimens still exist, showing it to be similar in principle to those used by the Australians and Eskimo.

The armies were very large, an expedition often consisting of several divisions, each numbering eight thousand men; but the tactics of the commanders were quite rudimentary, consisting merely of attack by arrows and javelins at a distance, gradually closing into a hand-to-hand fight with clubs and spears, with an occasional feigned retreat to draw the enemy into an ambuscade.

Swords, helmets and coats of mail, he says, were seldom to be seen; in general they were armed only with huge shields, unwieldy spears and darts.

They neither plant nor have they any manufactures except their rude bamboo and rattan vessels, the fish and game traps which they set with much skill, and the bows, blow-pipes and bamboo spears with which they and the produce of their hunting and fishing.

A captain of landsknechts, Fabian by name, holding his long pike crosswise, brought it down with all his force upon the opposing spears, and at the cost of his life made a narrow gap through which the French broke into the mass of the enemy.

But what more than any other point of strategy made the fight famous was that the Scots fought on foot in battalions with their spears outwards, in a circular formation serving the same purpose as the modern square.

Arrived at the place of burial, the body was set in a square pit with spears marking out its sides and a roof of matting.

Spears, battle-axes, collars, rings, amulets, medals of gold, ornaments of silver, jet and amber, &c., have also been found in various places.

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.

Swords, iron spears and arrow-heads, and a few copper caldrons, fabricated from the metal obtained in the country, complete the list of manufactures.

Just as the German reaper leaves the last ears of corn as an offering to Wodan, so the Australian black offers a portion of a find of honey; in New South Wales a pebble is said to have been offered or a number of spears, in Queensland the skin removed in forming the body-scars.

The man was thrown into the air and caught upon the points of spears.

The "Iliad" tells of almost nothing but war, and one sometimes wearies of the clash of spears and the din of battle; but the "Odyssey" tells of nobler courage--the courage of a soul sore tried, but steadfast to the end.

Joab thrust three spears through the heart of Absalom as he struggled in the branches, and as though this were not enough, his ten armour-bearers came around and slew him.

Spears of iron-wood, abundantly barbed, and small bows and bamboo arrows free from poison are their principal weapons."

The Scottish archers charged with axe in hand, and the Scottish right front was protected by a mass of fallen English horses and fighting men; the rear ranks of the English, clogged and crowded, could not reach the foe, and the line of Scottish spears pressed steadily and slowly forward.

When he is viewed an attempt is made to spear him by any of the field who may be within distance; if their spears miss, the owners must wade to recover them.

They also make wooden gongs, or drums. They used to make wooden fishhooks, clubs, spears and bows.

The knives, spears and shields of native workmanship frequently show both ingenuity and skill, alike in design and execution.

In the MS. of the chronicle of Diebold Schilling of Bern (c. 1480) there is in the picture of the battle of Sempach a warrior pierced with spears falling to the ground, which may possibly be meant for Winkelried; while in that of Diebold Schilling of Lucerne (1511), though in the text no allusion is made to any such incident, there is a similar picture of a man who has accomplished Winkelried's feat, but he is dressed in the colours of Lucerne.

Herr Burkli confines his criticism to the first struggle, in which alone mention is made of the driving back of the Swiss, pointing out also that the chronicle of 1476 and other later accounts attribute to the Austrians the manner of attack and the long spears which were the special characteristics of Swiss warriors, and that if Winkelried were a knight (as is asserted by Tschudi) he would have been clad in a coat of mail, or at least had a breastplate, neither of which could have been pierced by hostile lances.

But a pretender backed by Scottish spears did not appeal to the sympathies of the English borderers.

The weapons of the Fijians are spears, slings, throwing clubs and bows and arrows.

It was formerly the practice to kill the otter with long spears, which the huntsmen carried; now the quarry is picked up and "tailed," or run into by the pack.

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The uhlans started, the streamers on their spears fluttering, and trotted downhill toward the French cavalry which was seen below to the left.

But as the captain of the " Endeavour " ordered out the pinnace and prepared to land, the natives threw off their nonchalance; for on the boat approaching the shore, two men, each armed with a bundle of spears, presented themselves on a projecting rock and made threatening signs to the strangers.

The natives of the Admiralty Islands have used it for the heads of spears.

If the last paragraph in Herodotus be genuine, the Ligyes who lived above Massilia called traders Sigynnae, while among the Cyprians the word meant "spears."

According to the paintings of the Middle Kingdom in the tombs of Beni Hasan, the battlements of brick fortresses were attacked and wrenched away with long and massive spears.

His peers surrounded his body, and night fell on " the dark impenetrable wood " of the Scottish spears.

In December 1878 Frere sent the Zulu king an ultimatum, which, while awarding him the territory he claimed from the Boers, required him to make reparation for the outrages committed within the British borders, to receive a British resident, to disband his regiments, and to allow his young men to marry without the necessity of having first "washed their spears."

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Eel spears are the ultimate embodiment of beauty of form derived from function.

Britney Spears pops a false eyelash on the Today show crying about how badly the press treats her.

Sharon - a Northern Territory lass who spears and eats goannas.

Jamie Oliver suggests griddling the asparagus spears on a hot griddle pan for a couple of minutes, turning a couple of times.

They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

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Britney Spears posed naked for the front cover of Bazaar magazine.

Some possessed crudely made spears, others held pitchforks or hatchets, and many carried hunting knives.

Two spearmen, spears down, have round shields, whilst three spearmen throwing, have oval shields.

A warrior, he throws sharpened spears to cut in deep.

Expert horsemen, the Britons can throw spears from horseback, or from chariots.

Then came the swish of swift sharp spears seeking the mortal flesh of adversaries.