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▸ noun: (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
▸ noun: A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
▸ noun: (ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
▸ noun: (wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
▸ noun: A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
▸ noun: The feather of a horse.
▸ noun: The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
▸ noun: A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
▸ verb: (transitive, 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.
▸ verb: (gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete, especially in Regency England) To ignore as a social snub.
▸ adjective: Male.
▸ adjective: Pertaining to male family members.
▸ noun: (botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk
▸ noun: (obsolete) A church spire.
▸ noun: An English surname.
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