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boar-spears

boar-spears is the plural of boar-spear.

Meaning of boar-spear

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

Questions about boar-spears

What is boar-spears the plural of?
Boar-spears is the plural of boar-spear.

Words near boar-spears in the dictionary

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

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