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Substantiivi

1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
2. (botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk
3. (obsolete) A church spire.
4. (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
5. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
6. (ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
7. (wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
8. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
9. The feather of a horse.
10. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
11. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

Adjektiivi

1. Male.
2. Pertaining to male family members.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
2. (transitive, by extension) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
3. (gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
4. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
5. (transitive, obsolete, especially in Regency England) To ignore as a social snub.