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 sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
 * 3)  an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player
 * 4)  a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.

Derived terms

 * spearbush
 * spear gun
 * spearhead
 * spearmint
 * spear thrower
 * spear tackle
 * spearwood

Verb

 * 1) 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.

Adjectives for Spear
battled; glittering; enormous; broad; well-balanced; serried; splintering; stabbing; bloody; couched; barbed; beaming; shadowy; poisoned; brazen-headed.

Verbs for Spear
arm with—; barb—; brandish—; cast—; edge—; extract—; fashion—; fling—; hurl —; impale on—; let fly—; level—; taper— —s bristle; —fells; —flies; —gores; —penetrates; —perforates; —pricks; —punctures; —riddles; —spikes; —stabs; —staves in; — whirs; —whizzes.

Thesaurus
anthrophore, assegai, auger, axis, bag, bayonet, bill, bine, bite, blade, bole, bore, bough, bract, bracteole, bractlet, branch, branchedness, branchiness, broach, burgeon, cane, carpophore, catch, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cotyledon, countersink, culm, dagger, deadwood, dirk, drill, empierce, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, fix, flag, flagellum, floral leaf, foliole, footstalk, fork, foul, frond, funicule, funiculus, glume, gore, gouge, gouge out, halberd, harpoon, haulm, hole, honeycomb, hook, impale, involucre, involucrum, javelin, knife, lamina, lance, land, lasso, leaf, leaflet, leafstalk, lemma, ligule, limb, mesh, nail, needle, net, noose, offshoot, partisan, pedicel, peduncle, penetrate, perforate, petal, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, pierce, pike, pile, pine needle, pink, plunge in, poniard, prick, punch, puncture, ramage, ramification, ream, ream out, reed, riddle, rope, run through, runner, saber, sack, sarment, scion, seed leaf, seedstalk, sepal, shoot, skewer, slip, snag, snare, sniggle, spathe, spike, spire, spit, spontoon, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, stab, stalk, stem, stick, stiletto, stipe, stipula, stipule, stock, stolon, straw, sucker, switch, sword, take, tangle, tangle up with, tap, tendril, thallus, tigella, transfix, transpierce, trap, trepan, trephine, trunk, twig

Etymology
spere, from *speri (compare / speer,  spjör:), from *sparron (compare  sparre: 'rafter',  sparri: 'spar, rafter', sperra: 'rafter, beam'), from  *spar- (compare  sparus: 'short spear',  ferrë: 'thorn, thornbush' ).

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: speer
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: spjót
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:, ,  , picca
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kriol: ,
 * Latgalian:


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: šķēps
 * Lithuanian: ietis
 * Macedonian: копје
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norwegian:, spjut
 * Pitjantjatjara:
 * Polish: dzida, włócznia
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, дротик
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mkuki
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * !Xóõ: !ōo a̰a


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ;
 * Macedonian:


 * Polish: harpun
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: остве
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: chusa


 * : (rumħ)
 * : llança ; (for throwing) javelina, dard
 * : 矛 (máo); 槍, 枪 (qiāng)
 * : speer
 * : lance (1)
 * : Speer (1, 2), Fischspeer (2)
 * : galga, gandul (avoidance language)
 * : חנית, כִּ‏ידוֹ‏‏ן (kidon)
 * : lancia, germoglio
 * : 창 (chang)


 * : hasta
 * : spyd
 * : spere
 * : lança
 * : sleagh, iodhan , brod , gath
 * : kopija (1), oštep  (1), harpúna  (2)
 * : lanza
 * : శూలం (SoolaM), బల్లెం (balleM)

Verb

 * Finnish: keihästää


 * Greek:

Anagrams

 * apres, après, aprés
 * asper, as per
 * pares
 * parse
 * pears
 * præs.
 * rapes
 * reaps
 * RESPA
 * spare

Noun
spear


 * 1) spear