spear
A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything…A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
» Tom stabbed Mary with a spear.
Том ударил Мэри копьем.
Meaning
11 sensesA long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
Speer
копьёkopʹjó, пи́каpíka, дро́тикdrótik
списspys, пі́каpíka
a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
(historical)A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
острога́ostrogá
an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching 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.
asparagus and broccoli spears
The sprout of a plant, stalk
(obsolete)A church spire.
Examples
62 sentencesTom stabbed Mary with a spear.
ruТом ударил Мэри копьем.
Have you ever gone spear fishing?
Tom was killed by the spear.
Tom was about to throw his spear when he got stabbed in the back.
The spear missed Tom.
ruКопьё не попало в Тома.
deDer Speer verfehlte Tom.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West GermanicFrom Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Alteration of spire, from Middle English spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr (“stalk of a plant, shoot, blade”). More at spire.
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