1syllable
spears
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Definitions ofspears
1noun
- A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
- A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- 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.
Example: "asparagus and broccoli spears"
1verb
- 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.
- To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
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