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spearcaster

UK/ˈspɪəkɑːstə/

spearcaster noun: a sling-like device used to impart greater impetus to a thrown spear.

spearcaster: a sling-like device used to impart greater impetus to a thrown spear
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Noun

spearcaster (plural spearcasters)

  1. A sling-like device used to impart greater impetus to a thrown spear.
    • australian weapons. 1, knife; 2, club; 3, spearcaster.1897, John Clark Ridpath, chapter CXCI, in Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition and Ethnic Development of the Great Races of Mankind, and of the Principal Events...
  2. A soldier or guard armed with a spear used as a ranged weapon.
    • She felt near fainting with relief. Not that the blaster solved many problems. It wouldn’t get them out of a city aswarm with archers and spearcasters.1963, Analog Science Fact / Science Fiction, LXXI, 69
  3. A track-and-field athlete who throws a spear or spears; a javelinist, a javelin thrower.
    • Those spearcasters using the front carry feel relieved of the responsibility of thinking about the javelin during the run.1969, Francis Xavier Cretzmeyer et al., Bresnahan and Tuttle’s Track and Field Athletics, 7th edition, Saint Louis, Mo.: C. V. Mosby Co., →OCLC, page 242

Forms of spearcaster

pluralspearcasters

Origin of spearcaster

From spear (“long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon”) + caster (“that which casts; one who casts”).

Questions about spearcaster

What does spearcaster mean?
Spearcaster means a sling-like device used to impart greater impetus to a thrown spear.
What part of speech is spearcaster?
Spearcaster is a noun.
How do you pronounce spearcaster?
Spearcaster is pronounced /ˈspɪəkɑːstə/ (UK).
What is the plural of spearcaster?
The plural of spearcaster is spearcasters.

Words near spearcaster in the dictionary

  1. spearable
  2. spearbush
  3. spearcarrier
  4. spearcarriers
  5. spearcast
  6. spearcaster
  7. spearcasters
  8. spearcasts
  9. spearchucker
  10. spearchuckers
  11. speare

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