Partisan vs. Spear

Partisannoun

An adherent to a party or faction.

Partisannoun

A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.

Partisannoun

A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter

Partisannoun

The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

Partisannoun

(historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting. Obsolescent after the 17th century until revived by Sir Walter Scott.

Partisannoun

(obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.

Partisanadjective

Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.

Partisanadjective

Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party

Partisanadjective

Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.

Partisannoun

An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.

Partisannoun

The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

Partisannoun

A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.

Partisanadjective

Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.

Partisanadjective

Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.

Partisannoun

a fervent and even militant proponent of something

Partisannoun

an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

Partisannoun

a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries

Partisanadjective

devoted to a cause or party

Partisanadjective

adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination or party;

Spearnoun

A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.

Spearnoun

A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.

Spearnoun

A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.

Spearnoun

(ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.

Spearnoun

(wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.

Spearnoun

A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

Spearnoun

The feather of a horse.

Spearnoun

The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.

Spearnoun

A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

Spearverb

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.

Spearverb

(intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

Spearadjective

Male

Spearadjective

Pertaining to male family members

Spearnoun

A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.

Spearnoun

Fig.: A spearman.

Spearnoun

A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.

Spearnoun

A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

Spearnoun

The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.

Spearnoun

The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.

Spearverb

To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.

Spearverb

To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.

Spearnoun

a long pointed rod used as a weapon

Spearnoun

an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

Spearverb

pierce with a spear;

Spearverb

thrust up like a spear;

Spearnoun

a weapon with a pointed tip, typically of steel, and a long shaft, used for thrusting or throwing.

Spearnoun

an instrument with a long shaft and a barbed tip used for catching fish.

Spearnoun

a spearman.

Spearnoun

a plant shoot, especially a pointed stem of asparagus or broccoli

Spearverb

pierce or strike with a spear or other pointed object

Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as bone, flint, obsidian, iron, steel, or bronze (or other type of stone or metal).