Found 4 items, similar to Spear.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: spear
tombak
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: spear
galah, lembing, tombak
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: spear
spear
n 1: a long pointed rod used as a weapon [syn:
lance,
shaft]
2: an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching
fish [syn:
gig,
fizgig,
fishgig,
lance]
spear
v 1: pierce with a spear;
“spear fish”
2: thrust up like a spear;
“The branch speared up into the air”
[syn:
spear up]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Spear
Spear
\Spear\, n. [OE. spere, AS. spere; akin to D. & G. speer,
OS. & OHS. sper, Icel. spj["o]r, pl., Dan. sp[ae]r, L.
sparus.]
1. 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.
Note: [See Illust. of
Spearhead.]
“A sharp ground spear.”
--Chaucer.
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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks. --Micah iv. 3.
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2. Fig.: A spearman. --Sir W. Scott.
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3. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing
fish and other animals.
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4. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
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5. The feather of a horse. See
Feather, n., 4.
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6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is
attached; a pump rod.
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Spear foot, the off hind foot of a horse.
Spear grass. (Bot.)
(a) The common reed. See
Reed, n., 1.
(b) meadow grass. See under
Meadow.
Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the
right hand. --Crabb.
Spear side, the male line of a family. --Lowell.
Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle (
Cnicus lanceolatus
).
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Spear
\Spear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Speared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Spearing.]
To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a
fish.
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Spear
\Spear\, v. i.
To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See
Spire.
--Mortimer.
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