spear

Mane (Îngilîzî)

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.

Hevwate

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

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/spɪə̯(ɹ)/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: spere

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: spere

Hevwate bi frîsî: spear

Hevwate bi holendî: speer

Hevwate bi almanî: Speer

Hevwate bi Old Norse: spjǫr

Hevwate bi Middle Dutch: sparre

Hevwate bi Old Norse: sparri

Hevwate bi latînî: sparus

Hevwate bi elbanî: ferrë

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: spyre

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: 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”).