Usually means: Long, sharp weapon for thrusting.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. spear: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spear: Merriam-Webster
  3. spear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spear, spear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spear: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spear: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spear, spear: Wordnik
  8. spear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Spear, spear: Wiktionary
  10. spear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spear: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spear: Dictionary.com
  14. spear (1), spear (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SPEAR, Spear (comics), Spear (disambiguation), Spear (film), Spear (liturgy), Spear (surname), Spear (wrestling), Spear, The Spear (painting), The Spear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spear: Rhymezone
  20. spear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SPEAR: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Spear: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. spear: FreeDictionary.org
  25. spear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. spear: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. spear: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  4. SPEAR: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. spear: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spear: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spear, spear: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See speared as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
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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