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[ speer-ing ] / ˈspɪər ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR spearing ON THESAURUS.COM
noun Ice Hockey.an illegal check in which a player jabs an opponent with the end of the stick blade or the top end of the stick, resulting in a penalty. Origin of spearing1770–80, for literal sense; spear1 + -ing1 Words nearby spearingspearfisherman, spear grass, spear gun, spearhead, spear-head spoon, spearing, spearman, Spearman's rank-order coefficient, spearmint, spear phish, spear-phishing Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for spearingOne main culprit was the hard-shell helmet that had essentially become a spearing weapon. Super Bowl XLVIII Is Set to Be the Most Violent One Yet|Evin Demirel|January 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST Queen Elizabeth I owned forks for sweetmeats but chose to use her fingers instead, finding the spearing motion to be crude. The Strange Way We Eat: Bee Wilson’s ‘Consider the Fork’|Bee Wilson|October 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST The clerk is not writing, and has evidently no other use for his steel pen than spearing flies. Baddeck and That Sort of Thing|Charles Dudley Warner They go about curvetting and spearing, and dress themselves fancifully, and they are most courteous-mannered natives. Up the Country|Emily Eden
But Tom and I could do the spearing, and you could put the eels in the basket. Dick o' the Fens|George Manville Fenn That spearing salmon at night interests me, though doubtless the "season" will be over before I visit Carmel. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce|Ambrose Bierce I went to the place where the braves were spearing the fish and asked one of them to let me try my hand at the fish-spear. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands|George Francis Train
Words related to spearingpermeate, drill, seep, crack, pervade, puncture, enter, go through, invade, infiltrate, pass through, prick, injure, wound, punch, hurt, stick, jab, insert, run |