Spear

Meaning of Spear

noun
  1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
  2. A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
  3. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
  4. An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
  5. In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
  6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
  7. The feather of a horse.
  8. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
  9. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
    asparagus and broccoli spears
verb
  1. To pierce with a spear.
  2. (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.
  3. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
adjective
  1. Male.
    a spear counterpart
  2. Pertaining to male family members.
    the spear side of the family

Information about Spear

  • The plural form of Spear is: Spears.
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Hyphenation of Spear

Spear

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • Spear is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Spear synonyms

Meaning lance:

lance, shaft

Meaning gig:

gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance

Spear antonyms

Meaning :

distaff

Anagrams of Spear

apers, asper, pares, parse, Paser, Pears, pears, praes, prase, presa, rapes, reaps, repas, spaer, spare

Words that rhyme with Spear

pear, compear, appear, coappear, disappear, misappear, reappear, redisappear, Breakspear, backspear, boarspear, eelspear, fishspear, spear, upspear

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