boar-spear

noun

A spear used for hunting boar.

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Meanings

nounboar-spear (plural boar-spears)

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
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    Raymond having accidentally killed the count, his uncle, by the glancing aside of his boar-spear, was wandering by night in the forest of Colombiers.

    1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 301
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