Synonyms of the word

spear

• n. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting…
• n. (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
• n. A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
• n. (ice hockey) an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
• n. (wrestling) a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
• n. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
• n. The feather of a horse.
• n. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
• n. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
• v. To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches…
• v. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

arm

• n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
• n. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
• n. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
• n. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object,…
• n. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
• n. A branch of an organization.
• n. (figuratively) Power; might; strength; support.
• n. (baseball, slang) A pitcher.
• n. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
• n. A group of patients in a medical trial.
• v. To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
• v. To supply with arms or limbs.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
• n. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
• n. (in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia.
• v. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
• v. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
• v. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
• v. (figuratively) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
• v. To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

empale

• v. Obsolete form of impale.
• v. (transitive) To make pale.

fishgig

• n. (fishing) Alternative spelling of fizgig.

fizgig

• n. (archaic) A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot.
• n. (archaic) Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.
• n. (archaic) A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
• n. (fishing) A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish; a type of harpoon.
• n. (Australia, slang, dated) A police informer.
• v. (Australia, slang, dated) To act as a police informer.
• n. (Scotland, rare) The common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris).

gig

• n. (informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially…
• n. (informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
• n. (now historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
• n. (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
• n. (Southern England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
• n. (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
• v. To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
• v. To engage in musical performances.
• v. To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
• v. (US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
• n. (colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.
• n. (slang) Any unit having the SI prefix giga-.
• n. A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
• v. To engender.

impale

• v. to pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
• v. more generally, to pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.

implement

• n. A tool or instrument for working with.
• v. to bring about; to put into practice.
• v. to carry out; to do.

jut

• n. Something that sticks out.
• v. (intransitive) To stick out.
• v. (obsolete) To butt.

lance

• n. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
• n. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the…
• n. (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
• n. (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
• n. (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
• n. (founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
• n. (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines…
• n. (medicine) A lancet.
• v. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
• v. To open with a lancet; to pierce.
• v. To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

project

• n. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
• n. (usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
• n. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
• n. (obsolete) A projectile.
• n. (obsolete) A projection.
• n. (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
• v. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
• v. (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
• v. (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
• v. (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
• v. (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
• v. (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own…
• v. (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

protrude

• v. To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
• v. To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
• v. To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.

shaft

• n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
• n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
• n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
• n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed…
• n. A beam or ray of light.
• n. The main axis of a feather.
• n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
• n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
• n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
• n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
• n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
• n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
• n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
• v. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

spike

• n. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward/outward.
• n. Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
• n. An ear of corn or grain.
• n. (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
• n. (in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
• n. A sharp peak in a graph.
• n. The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
• n. A long nail for storing papers and, by extension, the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles…
• n. (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the…
• n. (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
• n. A surge in power.
• n. (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
• n. Spike lavender.
• v. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
• v. To set or furnish with spikes.
• v. To fix on a spike.
• v. To prevent or frustrate.
• v. To increase sharply.
• v. To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
• v. To add a small amount of one substance to another.
• v. (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight…
• v. (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
• v. (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public.
• v. (football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or…

transfix

• v. (transitive) To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe.
• v. (transitive) To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
• v. (transitive) To fix or impale.
• n. (linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic…

weapon

• n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
• n. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
• n. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.