spear

Signification (Anglais)

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. 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. To pierce with a spear.
2. 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. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
5. (obsolete) To ignore as a social snub.

Adj

1. Male.
2. Pertaining to male family members.

Concepts

lance

javelot

épieu

sagaie

lame de lance

pointe de lance

épée

tamarin

brin

dard

pointe de flèche

transpercer

pousse

harpon

harponner

jeune

poinçon

poison

Synonymes

lance

javelin

pierce

stab

pike

dart

🎯

harpoon

weapon

poke

shaft

prick

sting

shoot

arrow

gore

bayonet

thrust

fork

sew

impale

inject

fizgig

gig

leister

spear up

fishgig

sprout

punch

👊

staff

halberd

puncture

spike

spit

war

fish spear

sword

touch

nail

border upon

pigsticker

pikestaff

pin

pitchfork

play

point

poison

pole

produce

prong

protrude

rain

🌧️

reed

riddle

rifle

sable

scion

set

sheathe

shovel-nosed

skewer

spar

spearhead

spearman

splinter

stave

stem

stick

stone

🪨

strike

tamarind

tap

thorn

to

twinge

walking stick

waster

wimble

window

🪟

wound

write

✍️

cion

fishing spear

harpoon gun

shoot an arrow

stave in

stick into

steel rod

abuse

pointed stick

terebrate

barbed dart

tine point

spearshaft

arrowhead

ash

assagai

assegai

attack

👊

awl

banner

barbed

beer

🍺

beg

bite

boat hook

bore

broach

build

canoe

🛶

cleave

construct

cup

dagger

🗡️

dismiss

drill

fish-fork

flag

forge

gaff

garfish

glaive

gun

🔫

hit

hooked

injection

iron

kill

🔪🩸👤

knife

🔪

peduncle

penetrate

perforator

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spɪə̯(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: spere

Hérité de ancien anglais: spere

Appartenant à frison occidental: spear

Appartenant à néerlandais: speer

Appartenant à allemand: Speer

Appartenant à vieux norrois: spjǫr

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: sparre

Appartenant à vieux norrois: sparri

Appartenant à latin: sparus

Appartenant à albanais: ferrë

Hérité de moyen anglais: spyre

Hérité de ancien anglais: 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”).