spear
- Noun. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- Noun. A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- Noun. (ice hockey) an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- Noun. (wrestling) a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
- Verb. To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
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