Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - spear
Spear
spear
n. & v. --n. 1 a thrusting or throwing weapon with a pointed usu. steel tip and a long shaft. 2 a similar barbed instrument used for catching fish etc. 3 archaic a spearman. 4 a pointed stem of asparagus etc. --v.tr. pierce or strike with or as if with a spear (speared an olive). Phrases and idioms spear gun a gun used to propel a spear in underwater fishing. spear side the male side of a family. Etymology: OE spere
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English spere, from Old English; akin to Old High German sper ~, Latin sparus hunting ~ Date: before 12th century a thrusting or throwing weapon with long shaft and sharp head or blade, a sharp-pointed instrument with barbs used in ~ing fish, ~man, II. verb Date: 15th century transitive verb to pierce, strike, or take with or as if with a ~ , to catch (as a baseball) with a sudden thrust of the arm, intransitive verb to thrust at or wound something with or as if with a ~, ~er noun III. adjective Date: 1861 paternal 3 , IV. intransitive verb Etymology: 5~ Date: 1573 to thrust a ~ upward, V. noun Etymology: alteration of 1spire Date: 1647 a usually young blade, shoot, or sprout (as of grass) ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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