SPEAR
ADJECTIVES
1425 — FLOURISHING of a spear: vibrating → obs.
1475 — WELL-COUCHED of a spear or lance: properly levelled in preparation for attack
1828 — MORNED of a spear: having a blunt head → obs., heraldry usage
1853 — SHAKE-SPEAR brandishing a spear
NOUNS
..897 — ORD a point, esp. of a weapon; hence, a pointed weapon, a spear → obs.
1000 — GARE a spear or javelin → obs.
1000 — GAVELOCK a spear for throwing; a dart, a javelin → obs.
1000 — PIKE the pointed metal tip of a spear, arrow, etc.
1000 — SHAFT a spear or lance → arch.
1000 — SPRIT a spear → obs.
1000 — WAL-SPEAR a battle spear → poetic usage, obs.
1000 — WIFLE a spear, javelin, or dart → obs.
1297 — GLAIVE a spear or lance → obs.
1305 — BROACH a pointed rod of wood or iron; a spear, a lance, a skewer → obs, exc. Eng. dial.
1325 — CORONAL — CRONALL — CRONEL — CURNALL the head of a spear or lance, esp. of a tilting lance, ending in three or four short spreading points → obs.
1325 — GORE a spear or javelin
1330 — TRUNCHEON a fragment of a spear or lance; a piece broken off from a spear → obs.
1330 — TRUNCHEON the shaft of a spear → obs.
1350 — VAMPLATE a plate fixed on a spear or lance to serve as a guard for the hand, esp. in tilting
1366 — TREE the wooden shaft of a spear → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1375 — FEWTER a rest or support for a spear or lance, usually lined with felt and probably attached either to the breastplate of a knight on horseback, or to the saddle of his horse → obs.
1400 — TIMBER a spear shaft → obs.
1422 — GAD a spear or similar weapon; a light horseman’s spear; a spear designed to be thrown from the fighting top of a warship → arch.
1425 — ALGERE an eel spear → obs.
1425 — AUGER an eel spear → chiefly Eng. dial.
1440 — ELGER an eel spear → obs.
1440 — GARFANGLE a fish spear → obs.
1450 — LANGUE DE BOEUF a spear or staff weapon with a broad, triangular, double-edged blade
1450 — SPIT the point of a spear → obs.
1472 — WAWSPER a fishing spear → obs.
1489 — JAVELOT a small spear or javelin thrown with the hand or from a catapult → obs.
1490 — ESPIOT a spear → obs.
1500 — CROOK a barbed spear → obs.
1500 — GAVELOT a javelin or casting-spear → obs.
1519 — CRONET the head of a tilting spear, usually with three or four spreading points → obs.
1533 — BUR — BURR a broad iron ring on a tilting spear just behind the place for the hand → obs.
1533 — LEISTER a pronged spear for striking and taking fish, chiefly salmon
1540 — END the point of a spear → obs.
1540 — ROD the shaft of a spear → obs.
1542 — PARTISAN a spear used in t he 16th and 17th centuries, with a long, triangular, double-edged blade, with two upturned flukes at its base → hist.
1548 — GAD a spear → obs.
1548 — PLUMP OF SPEARS a band of spear carriers
1552 — PRICK a fish spear → obs.
1553 — STALE the stem of a spear or arrow
1562 — PUNCHING STAFF a staff with a sharp point; a spear, a lance → obs.
1575 — SPEAR-RUNNING jousting with spears → arch.
1578 — FUSKIN a three-pronged spear → obs.
1580 — WASTER a fishing spear → Sc.
1582 — PRAG a spear or similar weapon → obs.
1586 — HASTILUDE spear-play; a name for a kind of tilt or tournament → obs.
1596 — HARPING-IRON a barbed spear used for spearing whales and large fish → obs.
1600 — ASSEGAI an iron-tipped hardwood spear, esp. one used by southern African peoples
1625 — HARPOON a barbed dart or spear → obs.
1640 — GLAIVE a fish spear → Eng. dial.
1643 — FISHGIG a spear used to catch fish, consisting of a long pole with several barbed spikes at one end
1650 — CROWNACLE the head of a spear or lance ending in three or four short spreading points → obs.
1656 — GAFF a barbed fishing spear
1676 — MOLE-TINE a spear or spike used to kill moles → obs.
1775 — WITTERS the barbs of a fishing spear, arrow, etc.
1792 — SHOALING spearing fish in shallow water → Sc.
1792 — WEEQUASHING the spearing of eels or fish from a canoe by torchlight → Amer. dial.
1818 — GRAIN — GRANE a fish spear or harpoon with two or more ‘grains’ or prongs
1823 — PRITCH an eel spear → obs.
1824 — MORNETTE each of the points of the coronal of a tilting spear
1825 — PILGER a fish spear or eel spear → Eng. dial.
1831 — WINDLESTRAW a spear or lance → contemptuous usage
1839 — LEMBING a Malay spear characterized by a ridged blade
1847 — STANG an eel spear → Eng. dial.
1864 — JAG-SPEAR a barbed spear
1865 — SUN SPEAR a spear for catching eels or other fish → chiefly Ireland
1866 — FISH GAFF a pole with a barbed spear or hook at one end, for landing large fish
1873 — BLOOD GROOVE a groove cut in the head or shaft of a spear or arrow, to increase the amount of blood drawn by the weapon
1878 — GIDDEA — GIDGEE — GIDJEE — GIDYA a long spear made from the wood of the gidya (a species of Acacia), used by Australian Aboriginal people
1875 — PICK an eel spear → Sc.
1880 — PRICK a pronged eel spear, constructed of four serrated blades or tines spread out like a fan, and the eel becomes wedged between them → Eng. dial.
1888 — STONG GAD an eel spear → Eng. dial.
1889 — GRAINING a taking fish with a pronged spear
1889 — LASCARI a short spear used in the East Indies as a hunting spear, or as a javelin for throwing
NOUNS, PERSON
1330 — JOUSTER a person who jousts or fights on horseback with a spear, in battle or in tournament
1460 — HASTATE a soldier occupying the front line of the ancient Roman army, and armed with a spear → obs.
1589 — HASTARY a spearman; a soldier occupying the front line of the ancient Roman army, and armed with a spear → obs.
VERBS
1000 — BRAID to brandish a spear → obs.
1000 — SHOOT to hurl or throw a spear, etc. → obs.
1275 — SMITE to strike a person with a spear, sword, etc., in order to inflict serious injury or death
1425 — POIN to thrust a spear → obs.
1440 — FEWTER to put a spear or lance into a rest → hist.
1500 — SPEND to grasp a spear → obs.
1578 — TIMBER to supply or arm with spears → obs.
1590 — BEND to aim or direct a spear or sword → obs.
1640 — GLAIVE to spear a fish → obs.
1856 — STANG to spear eels → Eng. dial.
1894 — PRITCH to catch an eel with an eel spear → Eng. dial.
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