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spear

SubstantivVerbAdjektivSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//spɪə̯(ɹ)//
  • Kanada//spɪɹ//

A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.

    It's not like you killed someone It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why He did it all for you

  2. 2

    historischA soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.

    Now toil'd the Bruce, the battle done , To use his conquest boldly won; And gave command for horse and spear To press the Southron's scatter'd rear

    Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […].

  3. 3

    A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.

  4. 4

    An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.

  5. 5

    In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.

  6. 6

    A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

  7. 7

    The feather of a horse.

  8. 8

    The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.

  9. 9

    A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

    asparagus and broccoli spears

Herkunft

From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognates See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).

Verb

  1. 1

    To pierce with a spear.

    By the 1970s, herders were spearing rhinos and poisoning lions to protest the loss of their land to conservation, then represented by the independent Kenyan government.

  2. 2

    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.

    Former teammate Derek Sanderson recalls that Maki hit Ted from behind as Green was clearing the puck from the Boston zone. Green turned to knock Maki down, but Maki speared him as he rose from the ice.

  3. 3

    To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.

  4. 4

    To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

    you may prepare them for spearing by laying the Keys in Earth or Sand

  5. 5

    veraltetTo ignore as a social snub.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Male.

    a spear counterpart

    When I was young, I was so desperate I'd go looking on the spear side.

  2. 2

    Pertaining to male family members.

    the spear side of the family

Substantiv

  1. 1

    The sprout of a plant, stalk

  2. 2

    veraltetA church spire.

Herkunft

Alteration of spire, from Middle English spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr (“stalk of a plant, shoot, blade”). More at spire.

Formen

Plural
spears
Präteritum
speared
Partizip II
speared
Partizip I
spearing
3. Person Singular
spears
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