spear

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
2. (historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
3. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
4. An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
5. In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
7. The feather of a horse.
8. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
9. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

Verb

1. (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
2. (broadly, transitive) 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.
3. To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
4. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
5. (especially, obsolete, transitive) To ignore as a social snub.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Male.
2. (not-comparable) Pertaining to male family members.

Sinonieme

lance

javelin

pierce

stab

pike

dart

🎯

harpoon

weapon

poke

prick

shaft

sting

shoot

inject

fizgig

thrust

leister

impale

bayonet

sew

gore

gig

arrow

fork

fish spear

nail

border upon

fishgig

spit

spear up

sword

touch

sprout

staff

war

halberd

puncture

punch

👊

spike

forge

bore

flag

boat hook

awl

fish-fork

bite

drill

knife

🔪

dismiss

beg

Vertalings

lance

Speer

lancia

lanza

lança

speer

javelot

Lanze

llança

Spieß

lans

mızrak

javelina

hasta

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/spɪə̯(ɹ)/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: spere

Geërf van Old English: spere

Verwante met Fries: spear

Verwante met Nederlands: speer

Verwante met Duits: Speer

Verwante met Old Norse: spjǫr

Verwante met Middle Dutch: sparre

Verwante met Old Norse: sparri

Verwante met Latyn: sparus

Verwante met Albanees: ferrë

Geërf van Middle English: spyre

Geërf van Old English: spīr

In summary

From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Cognates
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”).