Definition of "spear" []

• A weapon consisting of a long shaft with a sharply pointed end. (noun)
• A shaft with a sharp point and barbs for spearing fish. (noun)
• A soldier armed with a spear. (noun)
• To pierce with or as if with a spear. (verb-transitive)
• To catch with a thrust of the arm: spear a football. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This hungry bird gives another meaning to the term spear fishing - as she turns her unlucky prey into a fish kebab."
• "His neck resembles an Easter ham and his spear is the size of a telephone pole."
• "An 'the blacksmith made him what he called a spear-head."