Spear

[spɪə] or [spɪr]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon.

(noun.) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.

(verb.) pierce with a spear; 'spear fish'.

(verb.) thrust up like a spear; 'The branch speared up into the air'.

校對:瓦珥--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) Fig.: A spearman.

(n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.

(n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

(n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.

(n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.

(v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.

(v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Lance, javelin.[2]. Shoot, spire.

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解釋/意思:

n. a long weapon used in war and hunting made of a pole pointed with iron: a lance with barbed prongs used for catching fish.—v.t. to pierce or kill with a spear.—ns. Spear′-fish a kind of carp-sucker—also Sail-fish and Skimback: the bill-fish a histiophoroid fish related to the swordfish; Spear′-foot the off or right hind-foot of a horse; Spear′-grass a name applied to various grasses esp. those known as meadow-grass the Kentucky blue-grass: either of two New Zealand plants of the parsley family with long spinous leaflets; Spear′-head the iron point of a spear; Spear′-lil′y a plant of one of the species of the Australian genus Doryanthes of the Amaryllide with sword-shaped leaves; Spear′man a man armed with a spear; Spear′mint the common garden-mint; Spear′-this′tle the common thistle; Spear′-wood one of two Australian trees whose wood makes good spear-shafts; Spear′-wort the name of several species of Ranunculus with lance-shaped leaves.

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