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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
boar-spear en · NOUN
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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: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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