spearedadj.
Armed with a spear or spears.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > with spear or lance
tridentiferous1656
speareda1821
a1821 J. Keats Otho v. v, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 201 I will lead your legions forth, Compact in steeled squares, and speared files.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 150 The speared desires that overran The fairest fields of virtue.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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speared
speared adj.1
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut
lokenOE
yclosed1377
luckena1400
speareda1400
closec1400
shut1474
yschutte?a1475
parrocked?1510
closed1526
folded1570
occluse1601
shut-up1614
steeked1709
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10091 He com in at þe yatt sperd.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 24 And bot it is merveille and more to passe thorgh spered ȝate.
speared
speared adj.2
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the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > that has grown
upsprungc1000
sprouted?c1475
sprungc1485
speared1577
sprit1688
shot?1830
in full flush1893
1577–82 N. Breton Toys of Idle Head in Wks. (1879) I. 58/2 What their shiftes should be,..by speered Mault the Bruer soone will see.
1765 Museum Rusticum 3 151 It would have been better..if more of it had been grown last year, when the wheat was almost all speared.
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- shoot after
- shoot against
- shoot ahead
- shoot at
- shoot at an object
- shoot at etc
- shoot at etc an object
- shoot at rovers
- shoot at to
- shoot at to an object
- shoot back
- shoot beside
- shoot blanks
- shoot casino
- shoot compass
- shoot craps
- shoot down
- shoot down in flames
- shoot far from
- shoot flying
- shoot for
- shoot for the stick
- shoot forth, out, away
- shoot from the hip
- shoot in