spear 的 4 个定义
- a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- a soldier or other person armed with such a weapon; spearman: an army of 40,000 spears.
- a similar weapon or stabbing implement, as one for use in fishing.
- the act of spearing.
- to pierce with or as with a spear.
- to go or penetrate like a spear: The plane speared through the clouds.
spear 近义词
lance
weapon
更多spear例句
- On a scorching day this August, Caleb Woodall wielded his shovel like a spear, stabbing it into the hardened crust of an asbestos-filled pit near Coalinga, California.
- The first spear-throwers tossed their weapons 279,000 years ago — before modern humans existed.
- Scientists long believed that the ancients who lived 80,000 years ago were the first to throw spears with stone tips.
- It’s possible, he says, that bone points were attached to multi-pronged spears that were thrown or thrust at fish.
- Each of two newly analyzed specimens sports a toothy lower jaw and one giant spear jutting down from its top jaw.
- In some versions of that story, the spear is the first weapon George tries.
- The earliest clear evidence of a human killed by a spear dates to roughly 100,000 years ago.
- And, as we all know, “this ‘war on Christmas’ is the tip of the spear in a larger battle to secularize our culture.”
- This could be the tip of the spear in a larger battle to Christianize Jewish culture.
- “I almost died twice today,” Shane exclaims, after beheading the snake with a pointed stick he whittled to a spear.
- This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.
- Mafuta immediately rushed at him with a spear, but was caught by the lion on the shoulder, and dragged down.
- This last spear is propelled by a throwing-stick, which was also found lying by it.
- There they waited to spear the reindeer, while others hid behind rocks near the entrance to drive the reindeer on.
- When they worked in this way, they had no trouble in striking off flakes for spear points and knives.