spear

n. ஈட்டி, வேல்கம்பு, எஃகுமுனை கொண்ட வேட்டை எறிகருவி, படைவீரர் எறிவேல், மீனெறி வேல், மீன் குத்தும் ஈட்டி, (வினை.) வேல்கொண்டு எறி, ஈட்டியாற் குத்து, குத்தி ஊடுருவு, நீள்தண்டாக முளைத்து எழு.

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Spear, n. Etym: [OE. spere, AS. spere; akin to D. & G. speer, OS. & OHS. sper, Icel. spjör, pl., Dan. spær, L. sparus.] 1. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. Note: [See Illust. of Spearhead.] "A sharp ground spear." Chaucer. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Micah iv. 3. 2. Fig.: A spearman. Sir W. Scott. 3. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. 4. A shoot, as of grass; a spire. 5. The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4. 6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. Spear foot, the off hind foot of a horse. -- Spear grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, n., 1. (b) meadow grass. See under Meadow. -- Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. Crabb. -- Spear side, the male line of a family. Lowell. -- Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus). Spear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Speared; p. pr. & vb. n. Spearing.] Defn: To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. Spear, v. i. Defn: To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. Mortimer.

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