Speared vs Speaned - What's the difference?
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(spear)
A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 187:
A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
(ice hockey) an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
(wrestling) a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
A spearman.
A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
The feather of a horse.
The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
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.
To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
As verbs the difference between speared and speaned
is that speared is past tense of spear while speaned is past tense of spean.speared
English
Verb
(head)spear
English
(wikipedia spear)Noun
(en noun)- Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […].
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- asparagus and broccoli spears
Derived terms
* spearbush * spear gun * spearhead * spearmint * spear thrower * spear tackle * spearwoodSee also
* assegai, assagai, assagaie, assagay, assegay, azagaia, hassagay, hassaguay, zagaie, zagaye * atlatl * bayonet * harpoon * javelin * joust * lance * pike * spit, used to grill food on fire * woomeraVerb
(en verb)- (Mortimer)