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The correct spelling is spears.
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noun
Say it like: Spee-rs
The correct spelling is spears. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion. For example: "asparagus and broccoli spears"
Usage Examples
“asparagus and broccoli spears”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- 2.A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
- 3.A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- 4.An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- 5.In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
verb
- 1.To pierce with a spear.
- 2.(by extension) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
- 3.To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
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