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boar-spear en · NOUN

Meanings

  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:
    • 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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