spear

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A slender stalk, as of asparagus.
• intransitive verb To sprout like a spear.
• noun A weapon consisting of a long shaft with a sharply pointed end.
• noun A shaft with a sharp point and barbs for spearing fish.
• noun A soldier armed with a spear.
• intransitive verb To pierce with a spear or other sharp object.
• intransitive verb To catch with a thrust of the arm.
• intransitive verb Football To block (an opponent) by ramming with the helmet, in violation of the rules.
• intransitive verb Sports To jab (an opponent) with the blade of a hockey stick, in violation of the rules.
• intransitive verb To stab at something with a spear or other sharp object.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To pierce or strike with a spear or similar weapon: as, to spear fish.
• To shoot into a long stem; germinate, as barley. See spire.
• An obsolete form of speer.
• noun A weapon consisting of a penetrating head attached to a long shaft of wood, designed to be thrust by or launched from the hand at an enemy or at game.
• noun A man armed with a spear; a spearman.
• noun A sharp-pointed instrument with barbed tines, generally three or four, used for stabbing fish and other animals; a fish-gig.
• noun An instrument like or suggestive of an actual spear, as some articles of domestic or mechanical use, one of the long pieces fixed transversely to the beam or body of chevaux-de-frise, in some parts of England a bee's sting, etc.
• noun One of the pieces of timber which together form the main rod of the Cornish pumping-engine.
• noun The feather of a horse. Also called the streak of the spear.
• noun A spire: now used only of the stalks of grasses: as, a spear of wheat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See spire.
• transitive verb To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear.
• noun 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.
• noun Fig.: A spearman.
• noun A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
• noun A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
• noun The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
• noun The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
• noun the off hind foot of a horse.
• noun (Bot.) meadow grass. See under Meadow.
• noun the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand.
• noun the male line of a family.
• noun (Bot.) the common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
• noun A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
• noun A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
• noun ice hockey an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
• noun wrestling a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
• noun A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
• verb 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.
• verb intransitive To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
• verb pierce with a spear
• verb thrust up like a spear
• noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish