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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
spear .
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Examples
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“No,” said he, “the fish which he speared, that is, which he is accused of spearing, did not belong to his landlord but to another person; he hires land of Lord V -, but the fishing of the river which runs through that land belongs to Sir Watkin.”
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The Australian savage, when he has speared a kangaroo, makes his wife cook it, then selects the juiciest cuts for himself and the other men, leaving the bones to the women and dogs.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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Ahuja believes someone is trying to frame Hailey (her name was signed on a note "speared" onto Jon's dresser with a knife) and also said that the NYPD hasn't gotten in touch with Glassman since the break-in.
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton 2009
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Speaking of gay ... nice picture choice ... looks like Lidstrom is getting "speared" if you know what I mean.
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Attorney Mark Jay Heller says Gosselin came home Saturday to find the destruction - and a note "speared" to his bedroom dresser with a butcher knife.
WCAX - Local News 2009
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It is fishing – waiting for a water flea to swim close enough to be speared from above.
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I ate like a barbarian, cutting the egg and the fish with a chopstick in each hand, knife and fork style, and speared the pieces one by one.
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That man is getting speared through the back by hot blue marlin that decided to fly over the transom during the fight.
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Yardy was an integral part of the successful Twenty20 campaign in the Caribbean last year, a revelation with his left arm stuff speared in.
Michael Yardy's underlying depression exacerbated by life on the road | Mike Selvey 2011
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Generous portions of meats, cheeses, fish, seafood and tapenades piled on to chunks of bread speared with a toothpick – hence the name pintxo, which means spike.
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