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Spear :: Spear (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish..

Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little..

Trilogy :: Trilogy (n.) A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's Henry VI. is an example..

Poach :: Poach (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish..

Edition :: Edition (n.) A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare..

Lister :: Lister (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish..

Assegai :: Assegai (n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin..

Buttercup :: Buttercup (n.) A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare..

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear..

Pentathlon :: Pentathlon (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear..

Eelspear :: Eelspear (n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

Spearhead :: Spearhead (n.) The pointed head, or end, of a spear..

Plantage :: Plantage (n.) A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted..

Swan :: Swan (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon..

Spear :: Spear (n.) Fig.: A spearman.

Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..

Trow :: Trow (n.) A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.

Demilance :: Demilance (n.) A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer..

Gig :: Gig (n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.

Barb :: Barb (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc..

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