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Webster 1828 Edition


Spearing

SPE'ARING

, ppr.
1.
Piercing or killing with a spear.
2.
Shooting into a long stem.

Definition 2024


spearing

spearing

English

Verb

spearing

  1. present participle of spear

Noun

spearing (plural spearings)

  1. The stabbing of something with a spear.
    • 2011, Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal (page 297)
      These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.