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Word: spear (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
  • A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
  • ice hockey an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player
  • wrestling a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.

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Verb:

  • 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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