Dictionary Entry

spear

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/spɪɹ/Used In Literature ↓

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

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. spearspear long

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Poetry examples for “spear”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And see the boughs with happy burdens bend.
The hook she bore instead of Cynthia's spear,
To lop the growth of the luxuriant year, 10

So ladies in romance assist their knight,
Present the spear, and arm him for the fight,
He takes the gift with reverence, and extends

Ye were mighty in heart from of old,
Ye slew with the spear, and are slain.
Keen after heat is the cold,

“Bring forth the Spear.”

More glory by thy vanquished foes ascends.
Did not Pelides whom his spear did grieve,
Being required, with speedy help relieve?

Thou wert not born to ride, or arms to bear,
Thy hands agree not with the warlike spear.
Men handle those; all manly hopes resign,

The signals of the year,
And hails far Summer with his lifted spear.
The gorse-field dark, by sudden, gold caprice,

Thy _talk_ was somewhat still:
And fitter thy hand for my knightly spear
Than thy tongue for my lady's will!"

That fair far spear of light now lays
Its long gold shaft upon the waters.

Deep in my heart that spear-print stays,
That wound I gat beyond the waters,