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spear-point
[f. spear n.1]
1. The point of a spear.
c1450Merlin xvii. 275 The cristin hem receyved at spere poynte. 1584Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 13 Payed for makinge a spair poynt, vjd. 1597Cal. Border Pap. II. 464 Langriges..did openlie baffell and reprove the said lord Harrise of treason, by bearing his glove upon a speare point. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Crambe, A fruit of the shape of a spear point. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad ix. 78 Like melted gold the brazen spear-points blaze. 1815Scott Guy M. xlvii, A staff in her hand, headed with a sort of spear-point. 1856Kingsley Heroes iv. ii, Then they hurled their lances at his shield, but the spear-points turned like lead.
attrib.1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 6490, Table knives and forks, spear point, palette, and butchers' knives. 1930Blunden Poems 55 Like stars in frost as spear⁓point-bright.
2. transf. Something resembling the point of a spear. Also fig.
1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 169 Where the ice shoots up into thin spear-points. 1902Daily Chron. 1 Apr. 2/1 The ruddy spearpoints of the beech buds..swelling with new life. 1937R. Warner in C. Day Lewis Mind in Chains 37 Let us utilise this weight without blunting the spearpoint of our advances. 1963Times 15 Jan. 8/4 The spearpoint of aggression has been blunted in Vietnam.
3. A species of moth (see quot.).
1832J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & M. 79 The Spear Point (Acronycta cuspis)... Rare. Kent. |