spear🔊

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

(historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.

A lance with barbed prongs, 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) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.

A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

The feather of a horse.

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

A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

To pierce with a spear.

(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.

(gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.

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

(in Regency England) To ignore as a social snub. +

Male.

Pertaining to male family members.

(botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk

(obsolete) A church spire.