Crossword-Solution: SPEAR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spear | n. | A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. |
| Spear | n. | Fig.: A spearman. |
| Spear | n. | A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. |
| Spear | n. | A shoot, as of grass; a spire. |
| Spear | n. | The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4. |
| Spear | n. | The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. |
| Spear | v. t. | To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. |
| Spear | v. i. | To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPEAR | anagram | APERS, APRES, ASPER, EARPS, EPARS, PARES, PARSE, PEARS, PRAES, PRASE, PRESA, RAPES, RAPSE, RASPE, REAPS, REPAS, SAPER, SERPA, SPARE |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SPEAR (5)
For those the Race of _Israel_ oft forsook Their living strength, and unfrequented left His righteous Altar, bowing lowly down To bestial Gods; for which their heads as low Bow’d down in Battel, sunk before the Spear Of despicable foes.
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Then may the gods ne’er quench their fatal feud, And mine be the arbitrament of the fight, For which they now are arming, spear to spear; That neither he who holds the scepter now May keep this throne, nor he who fled the realm Return again.
Thus, a blazing spear, a sword of flame, a bow, or a sheaf of arrows seen in the midnight sky, prefigured Indian warfare.
Louis, over the fireplace, I have a property spear I had copied from one in Venice,—oh, years ago, after you first went abroad, while you were studying.
Quotes with SPEAR (3)
Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds." Job 39:19-25
Awww," Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 550 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).