Definition of: spear

(spir) noun
1. A weapon consisting of a pointed head on a long shaft.
2. A similar instrument, barbed and usually forked, as for spearing fish.
3. A spearman.
4. A leaf or slender stalk, as of grass: sometimes called a spire.
—v.t.
1. To pierce or capture with a spear.
—v.i.
2. To pierce as a spear does.
3. To send forth spears or spires, as a plant. [OE spere spear]
—spear′er noun