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 spear /ˈspɪr/
 矛,槍,持矛者(vt.)用矛刺(vi.)刺,戳(a.)父系的

 Spear n.
 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.”
    They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.   --Micah iv. 3.
 2. Fig.: A spearman.
 3. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
 4. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
 5. The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
 6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
 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).

 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.

 Spear, v. i. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.
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 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]
      v 1: pierce with a spear; "spear fish"
      2: thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air"
         [syn: spear up]