Speareth vs Sheareth - 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.
(archaic) (shear)
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
* Shakespeare
To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
(physics) To deform because of shearing forces.
(Scotland) To reap, as grain.
(figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger
* Dryden
the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing
* Youatt
(physics) a force that produces a shearing strain
(geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
As verbs the difference between speareth and sheareth
is that speareth is (spear) while sheareth is (archaic) (shear).speareth
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)
Anagrams
* ----sheareth
English
Verb
(head)shear
English
(wikipedia shear)Verb
- So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
- the golden tresses were shorn away
- (Jamieson)
Noun
(en noun)- short of the wool, and naked from the shear
- After the second shearing, he is a two-shear' ram; at the expiration of another year, he is a three-' shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.