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Meaning of spears

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

spears

Pronunciation:

noun

Definitions

  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.

verb

Definitions

  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.