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spear
spear is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Fig.: A spearman.
- 3noun
A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
- 4noun
A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
- 5noun
The feather of a horse. See Feather., 4.
- 6noun
The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
- 7transitive verb
To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
- 8intransitive verb
To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.
- 9noun
a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- 10noun
an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- 11verb
pierce with a spear
"spear fish"
- 12verb
thrust up like a spear
"The branch speared up into the air"
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