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spear-staff
[f. spear n.1]
The staff or shaft of a spear; = spear-shaft. Also transf.
1530Palsgr. 274/1 Speare staffe, fust de lance. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Hastile, a speare staffe. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 100 The fixed Stars in Libra..are in number Twenty-five...20. The calf of the right leg of Bootes. 21. The Spear-staff Incalurus of Bootes. 1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, Spear-staff, la hampe. 1736Ainsworth ii, Hasta pura, a spear staff without an iron head. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad i. 274 [Mars] Strikes his tall spear-staff on the sounding ground. 1878Gosse Rivers Bible 376 His spear-staff was ‘like a weaver's beam’. |