Crossword-Solution: SPEARHEAD 9 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Spearhead n. The pointed head, or end, of a spear.

We have 29 clues for the answer “SPEARHEAD”

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the leading military unit in an attack 1 answer
Lead an attack 1 answer
Forefront of an attack. 1 answer
Be the leader of 1 answer
An individual or group leading an attack or movement 1 answer
Lead the attack 1 answer
Leading force 1 answer
Leading person in an endeavor. 1 answer
Military group in the van. 1 answer
Take the lead in 1 answer
Lead the way 9 answers
precursors 15 answers
pioneers 16 answers
Forerunners. 17 answers
priority 17 answers
precedence 19 answers
precession 20 answers
ADVANCE guard 20 answers
Van ___. 23 answers
Leaders. 24 answers
GREAT thing 27 answers
forefront 32 answers
vanguard 38 answers
cutting edge 39 answers
great doings 47 answers
Pioneer 55 answers
Lead 75 answers
Front 78 answers
Leader? 81 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
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greedy person
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Sentences with SPEARHEAD (5)

That thing follows it too that it is known at once when a man is to be slain with that bill, for something sings in it so loudly that it may be heard along way off -- such a strong nature has that bill in it." Then Gunnar sang a song -- "Soon shall I that spearhead seize, And the bold sea-rover slay, Him whose blows on headpiece ring, Heaper up of piles of dead.
Njal's Saga Unknown Icelanders 2004
Skarphedinn hewed the spearhead off the shaft as he held it, and made another stroke at him, and the axe fell on the top of the shield, and dashed back the whole shield on Hroald's body, but the upper horn of the axe caught him on the brow, and he fell at full length on his back, and was dead at once.
Njal's Saga Unknown Icelanders 2004
From levelled halberd and spearhead Life-blood was dropping fast and red; And the keen arrows' biting sleet Upon the shore at Stord fast beat.
Heimskringla Snorri Sturlason 1996
The only weapon of an Indian is a very long bamboo or chuzo, ornamented with ostrich feathers, and pointed by a sharp spearhead.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1997
Surely you have lived too long, O Opener of Roads, and done enough evil to the House of Senzangacona, which you ever hated.” So he spoke, and once more I saw his hand steal towards the spearhead which was hidden beneath the blanket that he wore.
Finished H. Rider Haggard 1999

Quotes with SPEARHEAD (3)

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
Abraham Flexner
A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall. A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' ("Jane Brown's Body")
Cornell Woolrich The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to arms, I, Ximen Donkey, charged down the ridge and headed straight for the wolf that was tailing my beloved. My hooves kicked up sand and dust as I raced down from my commanding position; no wolf, not even a tiger, could have avoi…
Mo Yan Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1946–2014).