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boarspear

boarspear is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of boarspear

pluralboarspears

Questions about boarspear

What is boarspear the alternative spelling of?
Boarspear is the alternative spelling of boar-spear.

Words near boarspear in the dictionary

  1. Boarman
  2. Boarmans
  3. boars
  4. boarskin
  5. boarskins
  6. boarspear
  7. boart
  8. boarts
  9. boas
  10. Boas' sign
  11. Boas-Buck polynomial

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