Noun: spear
| Singular | spear |
| Plural | spears |
Sample Sentences
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It's not like you killed someone
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It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
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Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why
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He did it all for you [2000, “Judith”, performed by A Perfect Circle:]
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Now toil'd the Bruce, the battle done ,
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To use his conquest boldly won;
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And gave command for horse and spear
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To press the Southron's scatter'd rear [1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:]
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Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […]. [2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 187:]
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asparagus and broccoli spears
Nouns inflected like spear
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
2. Cognates
3. See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”). See: Middle English Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "spear"
German Nouns
Speer.