Definitions for Spear

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Spear spear

Spelling: [speer]

IPA: /spɪər/

Spear is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in Spear (aeprs).

Definitions for Spear

noun

1. a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
2. a soldier or other person armed with such a weapon; spearman:
3. a similar weapon or stabbing implement, as one for use in fishing.
4. the act of spearing.
5. a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.

adjective

1. spear side.

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce with or as with a spear.

verb (used without object)

1. to go or penetrate like a spear:
2. to sprout; shoot; send up or rise in a spear or spears.

Origin of Spear

before 900; Middle English (noun), Old English spere; cognate with Dutch, German speer

Examples for Spear

“I almost died twice today,” Shane exclaims, after beheading the snake with a pointed stick he whittled to a spear.

One of them gave me his spear, which was very blunt, and I sharpened it for him.

This is what happened: from one of the shenzis you traded a spear, or a spear was given you.

"A shenzi has killed Mavrouki with a spear," the man answered her question.

The earliest clear evidence of a human killed by a spear dates to roughly 100,000 years ago.

This could be the tip of the spear in a larger battle to Christianize Jewish culture.

If our men get to fooling with their women, they'll spear the lot of us!

Let him then name the gentleman with whom he would break a spear.

And, as we all know, “this ‘war on Christmas’ is the tip of the spear in a larger battle to secularize our culture.”

In some versions of that story, the spear is the first weapon George tries.