Sword vs. Spear

Swordnoun

(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack.

Swordnoun

(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.

Swordnoun

(tarot) A card of this suit.

Swordnoun

(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Swordnoun

(heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.

Swordnoun

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

Swordnoun

Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

Swordnoun

Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

Swordnoun

The military power of a country.

Swordnoun

One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Swordnoun

a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

Sword

A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved.

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).