spear

spear
    n 1: a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon [syn: {spear},
         {lance}, {shaft}]
    2: an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching
       fish [syn: {spear}, {gig}, {fizgig}, {fishgig}, {lance}]
    v 1: pierce with a spear; "spear fish"
    2: thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air"
       [syn: {spear}, {spear up}]
    

Spear \Spear\, v. i.
   To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See {Spire}.
   --Mortimer.
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Spear \Spear\, n. [OE. spere, AS. spere; akin to D. & G. speer,
   OS. & OHS. sper, Icel. spj["o]r, pl., Dan. spaer, 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.
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               They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
               their spears into pruning hooks.   --Micah iv. 3.
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   2. Fig.: A spearman. --Sir W. Scott.
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   3. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing
      fish and other animals.
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   4. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
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   5. The feather of a horse. See {Feather}, n., 4.
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   6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is
      attached; a pump rod.
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   {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}).
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Spear \Spear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Speared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Spearing}.]
   To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a
   fish.
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159 Moby Thesaurus words for "spear":
      anthrophore, assegai, auger, axis, bag, bayonet, bill, bine, bite,
      blade, bole, bore, bough, bract, bracteole, bractlet, branch,
      branchedness, branchiness, broach, burgeon, cane, carpophore,
      catch, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cotyledon, countersink, culm,
      dagger, deadwood, dirk, drill, empierce, enmesh, ensnare, entangle,
      entrap, fix, flag, flagellum, floral leaf, foliole, footstalk,
      fork, foul, frond, funicule, funiculus, glume, gore, gouge,
      gouge out, halberd, harpoon, haulm, hole, honeycomb, hook, impale,
      involucre, involucrum, javelin, knife, lamina, lance, land, lasso,
      leaf, leaflet, leafstalk, lemma, ligule, limb, mesh, nail, needle,
      net, noose, offshoot, partisan, pedicel, peduncle, penetrate,
      perforate, petal, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, pierce, pike, pile,
      pine needle, pink, plunge in, poniard, prick, punch, puncture,
      ramage, ramification, ream, ream out, reed, riddle, rope,
      run through, runner, saber, sack, sarment, scion, seed leaf,
      seedstalk, sepal, shoot, skewer, slip, snag, snare, sniggle,
      spathe, spike, spire, spit, spontoon, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout,
      stab, stalk, stem, stick, stiletto, stipe, stipula, stipule, stock,
      stolon, straw, sucker, switch, sword, take, tangle, tangle up with,
      tap, tendril, thallus, tigella, transfix, transpierce, trap,
      trepan, trephine, trunk, twig