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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Fig.: A spearman.
3. noun. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
4. noun. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
5. noun. The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
6. noun. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
7. transitive verb. To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
8. intransitive verb. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.
9. noun. a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon

   Synonyms: lance, shaft

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

    Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, lance

11. verb. pierce with a spear

    "spear fish"

12. verb. thrust up like a spear

    "The branch speared up into the air"

Synonyms

lance, shaft, fishgig, fizgig, gig

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spear:

apers, apres, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, rapes, reaps, repas, spaer, spare

Common word forms

spears, speared, spearer, spearing

Words from these letters

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