Speareth vs Sweareth - 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.
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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) (swear)
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As verbs the difference between speareth and sweareth
is that speareth is archaic third-person singular of spear while sweareth is third-person singular of swear.speareth
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Verb
(head)spear
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(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
* ----sweareth
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Verb
(head)- Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.