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boar-spear

boar-spear noun: a spear used for hunting boar.

Noun

boar-spear (plural boar-spears)

  1. A spear used for hunting boar.
    • And still the foster with his long bore-speare / Him kept from landing at his wished will […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Raymond having accidentally killed the count, his uncle, by the glancing aside of his boar-spear, was wandering by night in the forest of Colombiers.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 301

Forms of boar-spear

pluralboar-spears

Questions about boar-spear

What does boar-spear mean?
Boar-spear means a spear used for hunting boar.
What part of speech is boar-spear?
Boar-spear is a noun.
What is the plural of boar-spear?
The plural of boar-spear is boar-spears.

Words near boar-spear in the dictionary

  1. Boao
  2. boar
  3. boar hog
  4. boar taint
  5. boar's nest
  6. boar-spear
  7. boar-spears
  8. boarback
  9. board
  10. board and board
  11. board and lodging

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