Definitions
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- noun the head and sharpened point of a spear
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Examples
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I screamed and closed with him, seizing his right wrist as the spear-point swung at my breast, my hand slipping on that oily skin; I drove a knee at his groin, butting him for all I was worth and trying to bite his throat - all I got was a mouthful of monkey -, skin collar, and God, how he stank!
Watershed 2010
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Then he so foined him in the breast that the spear-point issued from his back and he cried out, saying, Ho! will none come out?
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The crowd jeered as he was jabbed at spear-point towards the hole.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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The crowd jeered as he was jabbed at spear-point towards the hole.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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During the first couple weeks of His exercise program, He couldn't work out on the treadmill for more than 10 minutes without gasping for breath and aggravating the old spear-point injury in His side.
Satire: Christ Getting In Shape For Second Coming William Harryman 2007
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This guy is the spear-point of Chairman and Chief Executive Robert J. Ulrich's savvy marketing machine, seducing "regular folks" with impressive cunning.
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That's the spear-point security tech selected by the U.S. National Security Agency to protect classified government information.
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Once the spear-point of Communism's global march into the Western hemisphere--reaching a dark zenith with the installation of Kremlin missiles in 1962-- Castro's Cuba came on harder times after the collapse of its mighty patron, the late USSR.
Castro Health Scare Brings First Power Shift Since 1959 2006
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Scarcely a word had been spoken between them and when I essayed various dialects I only got the prod of a spear-point.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The happy ones end with the victor returning hime juggling the bad guy's head on a spear-point.
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