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spear-head en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of spearhead.
   alt of spearhead
   • When surrounded they were still defiant, threatening all who approached with spear-heads attached to short staffs; these were finally struck out of their hands, but they still repelled peaceful overtures, making a formidable show of resistance with teeth and nails. 1877, R. Elton Smile [pseudonym; Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter I, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A., Buenos Ayres: Imprenta De Razon [actually Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press], →OCLC, page 16:
   • DG. 1 Spear-head, 19 in. long, with segmental and circular openings in the blade, found at Denhead, Coupar-Angus–G. Kinloch, 1832. 1892, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, “Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, Scotland”, in Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, page 137:
   • Market Weighton, SE870 410 Two burials S of modern settlement. A female burial (P) was located in a rock-cut grave with an amber and glass necklace, a pair of massive developed cruciform brooches, a single cruciform brooch, a possible belt plate, two pairs of wrist-clasps, a horn ring, a pair of girdle hangers, and pots, indicating a C6th date. The adjoining grave was that of a male of C7th date. A knife, buckle, spear-head, and part of a seax accompanied the male burial. 2013, Sarah Semple, “Appendix 1”, in Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England: Religion, Ritual, and Rulership in the Landscape, page 245:

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