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spearings

spearings is the plural of spearing.

Meaning of spearing

Noun (1)

spearing (plural spearings)

  1. The stabbing of something with a spear.
    • These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.2011, Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal, page 297

Noun (2)

spearing (plural spearing)

  1. An Atlantic silverside, a fish of species Menidia menidia.

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Proper noun capitalized: Spearings

Spearings

  1. (plural) plural of Spearing

Questions about spearings

What is spearings the plural of?
Spearings is the plural of spearing.
What part of speech is spearings?
Spearings is a proper noun.

Words near spearings in the dictionary

  1. spearheader
  2. spearheaders
  3. spearheading
  4. spearheads
  5. spearing
  6. spearings
  7. spearless
  8. spearlet
  9. spearlets
  10. spearlike
  11. spearmaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spearings (page history and authors); Spearings (page history and authors); spearing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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