speared

Adjective

speared (not comparable)

1. Wielding a spear.
   • I must add, that a speared horseman, who said he had been sent to kill us, demanded ransom. The soldier coming up mediated. We compromised and the man got his fee. Perhaps, having a horse and spear, he was doing a job on his own account: if not, he got double pay.1832 May 17, F[rancis] W[illiam] Newman, “Letter LIII.”, in Personal Narrative, in Letters, Principally from Turkey, in the Years 1830-3, London: Holyoake and Co., […], published 1856, page 84
   • Taken any way one can, an army on paper is not a satisfactory profession. […] those who shape its destinies are so ready to direct it against matchlock monarchs and speared soldiery; […]1873, W[illiam] F[rancis] Butler, “The Situation at Home.—The West again.—A Land of Silence.”, in The Wild North Land: Being the Story of a Winter Journey, with Dogs, Across Northern North America...